I’m surprised there hasn’t been more attention in the press today on the comments made by Martin Bryan, outgoing convenor of the ISO JTC1/SC34 WG1 (the working group overseeing the progress of ECMA 376 - Microsoft Office Open XML - through the ISO standardization process).

It’s a really quite remarkable comment on the mess that has been left by the failure of new nations encouraged to join the working group in order to vote on ECMA 376 to vote on anything else (Andy Updegrove previously explained the background to this mess here).

According to Bryan:

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