[odf-discuss] Website has info on Ballet Comments

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Russell Ossendryver wrote:
> http://www.adjb.net/index.php

Direct link to file of ballot comments, published on the SC34 
website:  http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0904.zip

In the blog post Russell pointed to (permalink 
http://www.adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry070909-104641 ), the 
author--Alex Brown, convenor of the BRM (Ballot Resolution 
Meeting) for DIS29500 (OOXML)--said:
"One curiosity of the ballot results is the degree of skepticism 
accompanying the votes of approval. Normally an approval vote in 
an ISO ballot means that the technical content has been approved. 
However, some of the comments accompanying approval votes look to 
me like they crave resolution.... This introduces a complication 
for the BRM. As convenor, one of my responsibilities is to run 
the meeting in a such a way that it maximises the chances of 
approving a text. One natural way of doing this is to 
de-prioritise comments that accompanied an approval vote, on the 
basis that those countries are already happy with the text. 
However, for Greece this evidently isn't an accurate assumption – 
and the same may be true of other countries too. I need to find 
out which."

--Jean