[odf-discuss] OXML an ISO standard in 30 days...

[marbux]

On 1/10/07, Alex Hudson <alex at stratagia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> People on standards lists will have seen this already.
>
> Microsoft's OpenXML is expected to be put on the ISO fast track
> procedure this week, and unless any of the members of ISO lodge a
> complaint of "contradiction" within 30 days, it will apparently become
> an ISO/IEC standard.

Alex, my information is that the process has already started and the
30-day period for standards national bodies to contradict the
submission ends on Feburary 5.

I've posted the documents Ecma submitted to the national bodies here
for downloading, <http://opendocumentfellowship.org/node/295>. I've
omitted the lengthy specification itself.