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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, July 2007

Current OpenXML ballot is unlawful - Part 1

So now that we have dealt with how to vote, we should perhaps turn a more important issue: the ballot is unlawful.
Why? Because the JTC1 Secretariat and ITTF (Information Technology Task Force) failed to follow the JTC1 Directives and ordinary principles of international law in dealing with the “contradictions” that were raised.
This post is intended […]

Open XML - Take-home messages on voting, Part 2

I should have made clearer that the last point in the previous post only applies to what you should do at the BRM (Ballot Resolution Meeting). For we also have:
(8) the only sensible vote in the letter ballot currently in progress is “No with comments” or more formally “disapproval … for technical reasons to be […]

Open XML - Take-home messages about the vote

In the four posts (Getting down to the nitty-gritty) I have been exploring the details of voting and the BRM (Ballot Resolution Meeting). Non-techies tend to be amazed at the eye-glazing technicalities which techies seem to relish, but, of course, there is nothing unique about software. All specialisms tend to be eye-glazing for the non-enthusiast. […]