[odf-discuss] Fwd: FW: [Noooxml] Fwd: OOXML

Lars D. Noodén lars at umich.edu
Wed May 2 15:54:15 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2 May 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> ... and if enough countries agree that its Ok, then it becomes a 
> standard.

The vote comes up during the summer holidays for many people, so now is 
the time to discuss it.  Thus my question.

> If you believe there is lots of things wrong with it; then you should
> consider writint those up in the format that ISO expects

Do you have a URL or some guidelines?  There was also a list of the voting 
and non-voting committee members.

> ... and make sure the member countries see that.  After all, there is 
> nothing like a 12000 pages 'suggestions' document to convince ISO that, 
> indeed the standard is not upto snuff.  ...

IMHO, Ecma 376 appears to exist soley for the purpose of hindering 
interoperability.  HTML wars all over again.

-Lars

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