Comments on: USA National Body apparently deadlocked on OpenXML

By: Do you love Microsoft? : “Yes with comments”" and “abstain”

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:39:23 +0000

[…] give a National Body (NB) a ticket to the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM). This has recently been clarified by ISO, according to Alex Brown (in Comment 2), who will be the convenor of the BRM. So my earlier […]

By: Alex Brown

Alex Brown — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:43:23 +0000

@John,

On a point of process detail, ISO have clarified that a “vote” of abstention in the five-month ballot will allow a country to attend the BRM, where that vote may be changed to either yes or no…

- Alex.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:38:13 +0000

“Of course, in this case a US company, MS, is clearly having a substantial influence on the votes of many National Bodies, much more than it appears to have had on the US body.”

Many members of national committees are outraged. It will be possible to get Office Open XML through ISO but Microsoft will pay a very high price.

What is required now is that standard experts speak up and stop Office Open XML standardization.

Microsoft went to far.