[odf-discuss] OOXML critics: ISO approval demonstrates the need for reform

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Russell Ossendryver <worldlabel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A similar response came from Patrick Durusau, an ODF coeditor who has vocally
> supported<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080224-odf-backer-urges-cooperation-to-fix-ooxmls-deficiencies.html>ISO standardization for OOXML. Although Durusau believes that OOXML is a
> "poster child for the open standards development process," he says<http://www.durusau.net/publications/adhocrules.pdf>that ad hoc rules and "process failures" had a detrimental impact on the
> OOXML revision and approval effort. Durusau calls<http://www.durusau.net/publications/placeatthetable.pdf>for standards process reforms and argues that ISO needs to be more
> inclusive.
>
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> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080403-ooxml-critics-iso-approval-demonstrates-the-need-for-reform.html
>
>
Patrick has been making some highly indefensible statements of late. The
wookie in his latest post is the claim that OOXML approval gets both OASIS
and Ecma a seat at the same table at JTC 1 because JTC 1 has kept
responsibility for maintaining OOXML rather than handing it back to Ecma.

"Maintenance" is a term of art at JTC 1. It involves little more than
publishing the occasional errata.

What would have forced a conversation at one table would have been for JTC 1
to remove OOXML from the fast track and to harmonize or converge OOXML and
ODF, basically the French NB proposal.  JTC 1 Directives provide ample
authority at pg. 145.

Unless ISO/IEC have dreamed up some new procedure not published in the JTC 1
Directives, there won't be substantive changes to OOXML before its next
periodic review, which is normally scheduled to take place every 5 years.
Some table to sit at: "The waiter will be here to take your order in 5
years. May I get you something to drink while you are waiting?"

Best regards,

Paul
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