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[News] [Rival] Malaysia Complains About Microsoft OOXML in Fast Track

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Malaysia Complains About Microsoft OOXML in Fast Track
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:23:08 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Malaysia Standards Says Most of Their Technical Concerns Unresolved at BRM; 
Fast Track Inappropriate 

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| They were there. And they contradict the stories being put out by those in 
| charge and by Microsoft. They did *not* have the opportunity to have their 
| concerns addressed totally. Malaysia voted to disapprove the undiscussed bulk 
| dispositions, although they had earlier voted to approve some dispositions 
| that were discussed.    
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080304063417316

OOXML, Macros and Security

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| Finally, note that this lack of information on how to locate macros within a 
| document makes it impossible for anyone to programmatically combine or divide 
| OOXML documents which may contain macros. For example, imagine a 2-page 
| spreadsheet, with a macro on sheet one only. How can it be split into two 
| one-page documents, if there is no defined way to locate the script 
| associated with page one? This is the type of automated composition and 
| document manipulation that OOXML should be enabling. Similarly, how can one 
| combine two single documents containing macros into one document, if there 
| are no defined rules for locating and naming macros? Many basic types of 
| applications,such as merging slide shows, etc., will break in the presence of 
| macros.          
| 
| The above topic was of interest to several NB's in Geneva, but could not be 
| discussed for lack of time at the BRM. 
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/ooxml-macros-and-security.html

Lack of time. Quickly, quickly! Fast track!! Maybe no-one will notice.


Related:

The Art of Being Mugged

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| The four options presented were:
| 
|     * Option 1: Submitter's responses (Ecma's) are all automatically 
|       approved. 
|     * Option 2: Anything not discussed is not approved.
|     * Option 3: Neutral third-party (ITTF) decides which Ecma responses are 
|        accepted 
|     * Option 4: Voting (approve + disapprove) must be at least 9 votes. 
|       Abstentions not counted. 
| 
| We were told that these options are not in the Directives and that were are 
| given these choices because ITTF "needs to act in the best interests of the 
| IEC". I don't quite get it, but there appears to be some concern over what 
| the press would think if the BRM did not handle all of the comments. One NB 
| requested to speak and asked, "I wonder what the press would think about 
| arbitrarily changed procedures?". No response. I thought to myself, why 
| wasn't ITTF thinking about the 'best interests" of JTC1 when they allowed a 
| 6,045 page Fast Track submission, or ignored all those contradiction 
| submissions, or decided to schedule a 5-day BRM to handle 3,522 NB comments. 
| Isn't it a bit late to start worrying about what the press will think?         
| 
| We break for lunch.
| 
| After lunch and after more discussion, the meeting adopted a variation of 
| option 4, by removing the vote minimum. I believe in this vote the BRM and 
| ITTF exceeded its authority and violated the consensus principles described 
| in JTC1 Directives.   
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/art-of-being-mugged.html


Microsoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia

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| Croatian laws keep its national body’s votes secret, so the only way for the 
| Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board member 
| illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course, unlikely to 
| happen. And the Serbian national standardization body is not officially 
| formed, so those two votes were easy for Microsoft, and probably not only 
| ones around the globe.      
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1


Microsoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXML

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| He was asked "Why did Microsoft push OOXML through the "Fast Track" process 
| instead of the standard ISO process? Wouldn't they get less resistance than 
| faced now?"  
| 
| His response was very frank: "Office is a USD$10 billion revenue generator 
| for the company. When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react 
| quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO 
| standards. Ecma and OASIS are 'international standards', but ISO is the 
| international 'Gold Standard'. Microsoft therefore had to rush this standard 
| through. Its a simple matter of commercial interests!"     
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/microsoft-tech-.html

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