On , January 24, 2007 at 20:42 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
The situation is that MS have gotten their document format approved by one standards group (ECMA or ECEA or something), but that group isn't very strict and mostly requires that the application is submitted in the correct manner and that the fees are attached.
ECMA (and this characterisation is a bit unfair to them, though only a bit. The situation is apparently that the terms of reference for the committee were formulated so that they would basically have to approve the standard - their purpose was just to agree "a formal standard for office productivity applications [...] which is fully compatible with the Office Open XML Formats").
I'm sure there are plenty of other nasties, and I've heard Groklaw has published some articles about these.
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections
The structure of ISO is that they have a central committee plus "mirror committees" in the economically larger nations. Is there a relevent mirror committee in Ireland?
I have seen (on the ILUG list) there are some people gathering contact information for the Irish body (I mentioned this in a mail to the IFSO committee earlier today, but was too busy to follow up with more detail to the fsfe-ie list).
Also, http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_Contacts#IRELAND_.28NSAI.29
Anyone got knowledge of ISO procedures?
This appears relevant: http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_at_JTC-1
Anyone got knowledge of ISO representation in Ireland?
Anyone know of incompatibilities between OOXML and other ISO standards? Anyone got some very concise nasties about OOXML?
Start with the grokdoc link above, specifically (for the first question) http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#Ecma_376_contradicts_nume...
Cheers,