Debate on OOXML standard continues behind closed doors
With 6,000 pages of text subject to 1,100 modifications, all to be approved by 120 delegates from 37 countries in just five days, the task facing the standards committee discussing Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format in Geneva this week is mammoth.
Its work will influence whether OOXML is adopted as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
The members of ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee 1 have already rejected OOXML once, in a vote last September. National bodies made around 3,500 comments on the draft standard in that ballot. ISO passed the comments to ECMA International, an industry consortium that submitted the OOXML draft to ISO for standardization. ECMA has whittled them down to 1,100 recommendations for processing at the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva this week.
Delegates at the meeting must decide to accept each of ECMA's recommendations, reject them or make some other change instead.
It began calmly, with the meeting's convenor, the editor of the draft standard and other officials presenting themselves, according to people familiar with the proceedings, which is closed to outside observers. Then it was quickly down to business.
In alphabetical order, national delegations took turns to raise one of the 1,100 issues with the draft standard that they felt needed change.
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