[odf-discuss] Website has info on Ballet Comments

[marbux]

On 9/9/07, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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."
>
> The U.S. is another NB that has reserved the right to change its vote at
the BRM. See the U.S. comments, right at the top. And some very tough US
comments were submitted with the ballot.  So the battle isn't over in the
U.S. as well.
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