[odf-discuss] India to vote NO

[Yoon Kit Yong]

The Malaysian issue has become quite political. The stunts pulled are
quite incredible.

yk.

On 24/08/07, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/23/07, Ian Lynch <ian.lynch at zmsl.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Well, India may be good news, but other things are happening that
> > > aren't so good.
> >
> > Ok, but even if MS do get it through its not the end of the game. Who
> > would have thought 5 years ago that MS would be having to expend
> > millions lobbying and pulling out all the stops just to stay in the
> > game. There will be enough dissent for echoes of this to keep on going
> > for some time and countries that vote no might well be so pissed off as
> > to take unilateral action. Throwing it out is the best outcome but let's
> > not get too down-hearted if that doesn't happen. This is a battle, not
> > the end of the war :-)
>
> Indeed, even Ecma 376 is approved by ISO there are many battles to come.
> Just a few examples:
>
>
> * Adoption as national standard. The Agreement on Technical Barriers to
> Trade section that I quoted above requires member nations to decide whether
> to adopt international standards as national standards, and instructs that
> they not be adopted as national standards if they were prepared, adopted or
> applied "with a view to or with the effect of creating obstacles to
> international trade."  And the unharmonized overlap and duplication of
> functionality with ODF is a particularly strong argument at that stage. See
> e.g., Annex 3 to the TBT treaty,
> <http://www.iso.org/iso/en/comms-markets/wto/pdf/tbt-a3.pdf>,
> and do a document search for "overlap."
>
> * Every individual government procurement tender that specifies Ecma 376 is
> subject to challenge on the same basis, at all levels of governments
> signatory to the Agreement on Government Procurement is also subject to
> challenge on the same grounds. See AGP Article 6 section 1 <
> http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/analytic_index_e/gpa_02_e.htm#article6>:
> >
> > Technical specifications laying down the characteristics of the products
> or services to be procured, such as quality, performance, safety and
> dimensions, symbols, terminology, packaging, marking and labelling, or the
> processes and methods for their production and requirements relating to
> conformity assessment procedures prescribed by procuring entities, shall not
> be prepared, adopted or applied with a view to, or with the effect of,
> creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade.
> * The marketplace.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marbux
>
>
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