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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:17

Norway vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Norway has also decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500 (Open XML). http://www.standard.no/imaker.exe?id=18594 Norway had initially voted "no with comments" in September, so it's great to see that they now feel Open XML is ready to be an ISO
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Friday, March 28, 2008 10:14

South Korea vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Oliver Bell just informed me that South Korea has decided to vote for approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML) as an ISO standard. This is a change from their original "no with comments" posisiton they took back in September, and is great news. South Korea was
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Friday, March 28, 2008 6:59

Denmark vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Jesper Lund Stocholm is reporting that Denmark has decided to change their initial vote of "no" in September to "yes" for ISO approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML). Here is a pointer to the press release: http://www.ds.dk/4225 As Stephen McGibbon put it: "Denmark
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:47 PM

Finland vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Here's the official statement, although it's in Finnish: http://www.sfs.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotteet/20080327195555.html Finland had initially voted "abstain" back in September, but they have now decided to change their vote to "yes" in support of DIS
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:16 PM

HP in favor of Open XML

www.hp.com/go/officedocumentstandards "In the current vote on OOXML at JTC 1, HP is supporting an affirmative vote in those national standards bodies in which HP is active." -Brian
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:04

Czech vote is now “yes” for Open XML

I just saw this on Stephen McGibbon's website: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/25/czech-republic-votes-to-approve-dis29500.aspx The Czech Republic has decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500. The Czech national body (led by Jirka Kosek
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Monday, March 24, 2008 11:30

ODF editor believes Open XML standardization is good for ODF

Via Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/24/durusau-quot-opendocument-among-others-will-lose-if-openxml-loses-quot.aspx " Patrick Durusau has posted another thoughtful contribution to the document formats standardisation debate" -Bria
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Monday, March 24, 2008 11:20

German technical committee votes “yes” on Open XML

There was an article published last week that describes the results of the voting in the technical committee of the German National Body for Standardization (DIN). DIN has been leading the way on a number of areas relating to file formats including the
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:32 PM

Out of time?

I wanted to talk about some of the comments I wish we could have dealt with but we didn't have enough time. We'll need to follow up with the national body for more information, and deal with it in maintenance. Here's the full list if you are interested
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Friday, February 01, 2008 5:01 PM

Sun’s view of standards

Interesting post from Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/01/31/sun-standards-as-quot-strategic-weapon-quot.aspx -Brian
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:18 PM

Mapping documents in the binary format (.doc; .xls; .ppt) to the Open XML format

I wanted to call everyone's attention to a few interesting developments in Ecma's proposed disposition document related to the Office binary formats. There were a few comments from national bodies that asked about the documentation of the Office binary
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Monday, January 14, 2008 7:19

Responses now complete for all 3,522 comments

Yesterday night Ecma TC45 and the Editor of DIS 29500 were able to publish the final drop of our responses to the 3,522 national body comments. The Ecma status report just went live today, and you can access it here: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/Proposed%20dispositions%20for%20National%20Body%20comments%20on%20DIS%2029500%20complete.htm
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:01

Why all the secrecy?

Alex Brown, a long time member of SC34 and the convener of the upcoming BRM for DIS 29500 provided some additional insight into the ISO/IEC rules behind keeping the national body comments confidential. National Bodies submit their comments as part of
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:37 PM

IBM’s Rob Weir makes it clear… he wants war

Last spring, we saw some positive developments in the file format world. We started to reach a critical mass of tools that support open formats. There were millions of downloads of the compatibility pack which allowed existing Microsoft Office customer
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:50 PM

Weird Moment of the Day

I saw this blog from one of the current chairs of the ODF committee in OASIS: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/12/bait-and-switch.html So, ODF was adopted as an ISO standard about a year ago, and since then there has already been a new version of ODF
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