My father was an inveterate reader of notice boards. He explained that all manner of interesting things were put on them for those who took the trouble to look. I should have paid more attention and spent more time looking at the JTC1 website, or more specifically the SC34 website.
SC34 is the JTC1 committee dealing […]
The noOOXML.org blog had an article on whether you can add comments when you vote Yes on the letter ballot. I found it interesting because it included a reference to the G18 DIS Letter Ballot form, which I had not previously looked at.
Two points arise. The first is that it turns out that […]
Michael Zenke, a Slashdot editor, put up without comment a submission from realdodgeman, an anonymous but presumably American contributor, last Sunday, about the deliberations of INCITS on OpenXML. Noting that there were apparently insufficient votes for approval, he concluded that “This will mean a huge slowdown in the standardization to the OOXML format”.
realdodgeman was correct […]
Bob Sutor (IBM) blogged on 6 August 2007 that “I predict we will see will be widespread re-evaluation of national standards body membership and voting rules.” In particular, he thought, that the process should be more open. Commenting on this on 11 August 2007, Alex Brown blogged that “openness, like choice, is one of the […]
Since I began this blog in mid-June, less than two months ago, I have put up over 60 articles about OpenXML, going into considerable detail. So it is perhaps time to step back from the trees and look at the wood.
The purpose of a standard is to standardize - to establish a single way of […]