IFSO member Ben North has sent a Freedom of Information Act request regarding Ireland’s change to a Yes vote to the National Standards Authority of Ireland. The request has been received and we’re told it’s being acted on. Letters sent by IFSO during the ISO consultation can be found on IFSO’s correspondence page. Becta in Read more »
So, FSFE is concerned about the ISO process, but the ISO process is not over, and the ISO process is not the only process. First, ISO endorsement does not automatically lead to endorsement by national governments. Second, there are still two months during which the ISO votes can be contested – and there are already Read more »
ISO has now approved OOXML. In FSFE, as our press release title says, that makes us concerned about quality of standardisation process; but if you’re like most of the world and haven’t followed every OOXML blog entry from Andy Updegrove, noooxml.org and Groklaw, you may be wondering: what’s wrong with OOXML anyway? I’ll try to Read more »
Unofficial counts indicate that OOXML will be approved by ISO because enough national standards bodies changed their vote. Andy Updegrove is keeping a running tally. I just got off the phone to the National Standards Authority of Ireland and, disappointingly, Ireland is among the countries that changed their vote from "disapprove" to "approve" (despite a Read more »
I’m still being impressed by the quality of the reports of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting that are appearing. When I read the blogs on Monday, I was worried because I thought Microsoft did a top-notch job of spinning it their way. It was only later when someone reminded me to search the mainstream tech Read more »
Rather than declaring victory, my previous blog entry should have said: we have another month of hard work ahead. It seems I missed the not-so-subtle difference between *really should* and *surely will*. I’ve even heard that it currently looks very realistic that OOXML will get final approval. In checking how I wrongly drew my "victory" Read more »
After a week of hard work from many sides, Andy Updegrove comments the result: OOXML failed to achieve majority approval at ISO’s Ballot Resolution Meeting. This means the problems found in the OOXML specification last September have not been resolved, making final rejection almost certain in 30 days time. [UPDATE: Oops. Rejection’s not at all Read more »
With ISO’s Ballot Resolution Meeting starting next Monday (Feb 25th), there’ve been a few interesting publications today: DIS-29500: Deprecated before use? by FSFE’s OOXML working group, explaining why Microsoft’s format was undeserving from the start, how it now fails even its own criteria for usefulness. A Pre-BRM Miscellany, "Photo ID requirements, badged access to the Read more »