India and Brazil File Appeals Against OOXML Standardization
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 16:58.
India and Brazil have filed appeals against the adoption of the Microsoft-sponsored Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.
Their appeals join one from South Africa, filed last Friday with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the two standardization bodies responsible for the technical committee which approved the OOXML standard.
"By the deadline last night, we had received three appeals, from Brazil, India and South Africa," said Jonathan Buck, spokesman for IEC.
"The Brazillian appeal was not lodged in the correct procedure -- it was not send to the CEOs of the two organizations -- but nonetheless it has been received," Buck said, adding that it will be treated in the same way as the Indian and South African appeals.
Also: Danish OSL complains to ISO and ISO's mercy
Malaysia might join?
There's possibly another country joining, but no-one knows which one (except Andy).
Future of marker language is cloudy ? Mpeg4/jpeg is pixels ?
People tend to think mobile monitor only has space enough for html(power point bullets). So, they argue about xml. But, alas, even html is going to be obsoleted by zooming technology and mpeg4/jpeg. Small screens of digital cameras had been satisfactory for many years, already.
Marker language on cloud computing will be obsoleted by pixel transmission(like fax machines). Pixels can be translated by character or speech recognition software into binary computing.
In the next ten years, cableTv and telcoTV, will spearhead into cloud computing. As it is, some data centers will be using on-demand video servers to have a taste of video data transmission(faster and more error free).