Just to add to the confusion there is a document from the SC34 Secretariat. It is confusing about its date: the 3rd paragraph (under Overview …) and the last paragraph (under Postscript) apparently conflict. Leaving that aside, it makes no mention of the 50% hurdle (under Balloting, voting and resolution) and states “To pass, at […]
In Part 1, I was getting myself confused (courtesy of the prize-winningly-badly-drafted JTC1 Directives) about what votes are needed to approve OpenXML.
Rob Weir has evidently researched the Abstentions issue with ISO and been told that you ignore Absentions in calculating the 2/3 and the 1/4 (see his Comment to Part 1). Meanwhile, I amused myself […]
It is well-known, of course, that venerable institutions often have regulations which are opaque to outsiders. Take, of example, the expertise in such matters which a Senator sometimes needs :
Unfortunately, it is an odd video type, and may not come out well in all players (works ok in Firefox and Camino). It is also rather […]
There was an interesting article a few days ago by Alex Brown (the convenor of the UK technical group on OpenXML) in which he argues that it is not possible simply to vote against OpenXML in JTC1.
Having read his article carefully and spent an unhappy hour looking (not for the first time) at the JTC1 […]