[odf-discuss] [Fwd: OOXML Approval Vote Fails in INCITS]

[Chris Puttick]

It's good, but not as good as a no with serious comments...

Chris

On 11/08/07, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright, this is great, right?  This means that OOXML has failed in a major
> international standards body has rejected OOXML?
>
>
>
> On 8/10/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: OOXML Approval Vote Fails in INCITS
> > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:40:02 -0400
> > From: andrew.updegrove at gesmer.com
> > To: andrew.updegrove at gesmer.com
> >
> > As I reported on July 23, INCITS, the US balloting body on the OOXML vote,
> > put out a ballot to see whether the US should vote to approve OOXML, with
> > the ballot to close on August 9 (see this blog entry:
> >
> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070723044713169
> >   and my contemporaneous email alert to this list).
> >
> > That ballot has now closed on schedule, and that vote has failed, with 8
> in
> > favor, 7 opposed, and one abstaining.  As noted in my prior post, a
> > schedule had been pre-agreed upon that could accommodate a further vote of
> > "no with comments."  I have no information at this time whether such a
> > ballot has been issued or not.
> >
> > Here are the votes:
> >
> > Yes votes:  Apple, Department of Homeland Security, the Electronic
> > Industries Alliance, EMC, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft and Sony
> > Electronics.
> > No votes:  Farance, Incorporated, GS1 US, IBM, Lexmark International,
> NIST,
> > Oracle, and the Department of Defense.
> > Abstention:  IEEE
> >
> > The overall vote is not, to me, a surprise.  Leaving all politics or
> > opinions aside on whether OOXML should become an ISO/IEC standard when ODF
> > already exists, I do not believe that OOXML is in good enough shape to
> > recommend a yes vote, with or without comments.
> >
> > For further information and analysis, as well as a link to the INCITS site
> > with votes and comments, see this blog entry:
> >
> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070810112044631
> >
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