BRM Documents
http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry080306-082306
The Edited Notes and the Resolutions from the BRM - Updated
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| One of the documents Brown has provided is an edited version of the notes
| from the meeting [PDF]. Obviously, that isn't sufficient, since one has no
| way to know all that was edited out. The other is a list of the resolutions.
| Apart from wanting to see unexpurgated notes, and to listen to the audio
| reportedly made of the meeting, what is the most interesting from the
| documents, as Groklaw member PolR emailed me, is that even the edited notes
| confirm some details we've been reading. I think they also raise some
| procedural questions.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080306134836706
MSOOXML BRM - XML Names
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| BTW, Ecma held a cocktail event on Thursday evening (28th) and I had an
| opportunity to chat with Mr Jan van den Beld. He was the head of Ecma and
| instrumental in seeing OOXML through the process. He re-justified the case
| for OOXML to us delegates, and yes, he did reiterate his favourite phrase,
| and Ecma's unofficial motto “Better a good standard today than a perfect one
| tomorrow”... I guess different people have different definitions of "good"!
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| He did, with good humour, apologize for being the one responsible for
| bringing all of us here. That was nice of him ;-)
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| Maybe I'm too much of an idealist, and he being in the standards business for
| so long, and having seen so much rubbish (^H^H^H^H vendor specifications)
| pushed through over the years, has lower expectations for international
| standards. I dunno. Hey, maybe I AM cynical, too!
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/msooxml-brm---x.html
JTC1 Improv Comedy Theater
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| To resort to "counting votes" on the vast majority of the technical issues of
| DIS 29500, without discussion or opportunity for objection, this is a failure
| of the JTC1 process. But if we are to have a vote at all, it must be done in
| accordance with the rules.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/jtc1-improv-comedy-theater.html
Crowd lines up to complain about the Fast Track process!
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| I guess the words “Fast Track” will never be the same for many of us.
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http://lehors.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/crowd-lines-up-to-complain-about-the-fast-track-process/
Related:
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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