If the requisite number of countries vote "Yes", the standard passes as is.
If enough countries vote "no" giving reasons ("conditional approval"), there
will be a 5 month period during which ECMA/Microsoft can address the issues.
At the end of the 5 months, if the issues are addressed to the satisfaction
of ISO, the corrected standard passes. If not, it does not pass.In short, a "no" vote is a request for certain issues to be resolved. My main issues point out that, with the standard as is, while many can produce applications that generated OOXML documents and read their own documents, Microsoft will probably be the only company that can read and process all documents produced by all software, or will have significant advantages (due to inside knowledge) in doing so. For the standard to pass as "approved", it must receive a yes vote from 2/3 of countries, and not more than 1/4 countries vote "no". On 31/08/2007, Keith Vassallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One small question, > > Does the ISO rectify a standard based on the votes from representatives > in various countries? > > Does every country have to vote yes in order for the standard to be > approved, or is it a majority vote? > > Is there some sort of QA at ISO to check the standards themselves? My > biggest fear is that the standard is 6000 pages of vague text. This will > leave Novell, Sun, IBM and other OpenOffice.org developers at a > disadvantage when it comes to implementing OOXML. > > What I'm worried about is not OOXML being approved, but OOXML being > approved in its current state. If OpenOffice.org could read OOXML files > as easily as Microsoft Word, then there would be no infringement on the > freedom of information act and at least the standard would be > politically correct (regardless of the bribery involved to get the > standard approved...) > > Keith > > On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:53 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > > OMG, i pity you ramon, i would probably have thrown something there > > adn then > > > > On 8/31/07, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > YOU'RE angry? You didn't have to sit through a whole morning > > of watching the head of Microsoft Malta (masquerading as " > > Maltadev.net") smiling smugly as he ensured that everyone > > voted as instructed. Unfortunately no weapons of mass > > destruction were within reach at the time. > > > > -- > > Ramon Casha > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > -- Ramon Casha
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