____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:18 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 08:10 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> The OOXML BRM: Secrets and statistics
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Of all the ?condensed? resolutions from ECMA, approximately 82% were not
>>>>| discussed at all, including counter proposals for these same issues. That
>>>>| leaves about 18% that were either discussed and voted on or else voted on
>>>>| early in batch. (I?m fine with batch votes for minor typographical
>>>>| fixes.)
>>>>|
>>>>| What an utter and predictable embarrassment.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2090
>>>>
>>>> Geneva Warning
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| There were 120 delegates in Geneva for a week for the BRM, and two of
>>>>| them were mugged. One fellow got a fractured jaw and a woman had her
>>>>| purse grabbed. This is not exactly the image one has of Switzerland. Who
>>>>| knows, maybe it?s just a statistical fluke. Maybe ISO delegates look like
>>>>| soft targets. But if I were going to be in Geneva, I?d watch where I
>>>>| walked and be careful about being alone.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/03/Geneva-Warning
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is an appalling state of affairs. As a one-time long-time ITU
>>> Rapporteur, I'm very familiar with the tactics used to lift particular
>>> issues to the forefront of typically very busy committees, and to drum
>>> up support across different delegations.
>>>
>>> In my decade of standards work, I never saw anything remotely like
>>> what's being reported from the ISO/BRM. This really is corruption in
>>> action, is so overt as to be, as is said above, an embarrassment.
>>>
>>> The result of Microsoft's activity here should be to review all procedures
>>> and processes of the ISO body, in particular, to ensure that ECMA-approved
>>> documents are not put through accelerated approvals processes since
>>> they are clearly no longer trustworthy, and that we taxpayers should
>>> be assured that our representatives from our national delegations are
>>> not representing a foreign company's interests and putting them beyond
>>> our own.
>>
>> Microsoft already plans this for XPS (with ECMA's help). Watch out, ISO.
>>
>
> I think that we should be pushing the warnings out now to all the
> relevant people. Presumably it could be possible to email suitable
> information to the delegation heads and the BRM chairman to let them
> know what is coming?
>
> I don't imagine for one moment that Microsoft will be giving up on
> trying to get a second standard alongside the excellent ODF. I would
> like to see ISO review its own rules and determine just why they even
> /considered/ OOXML, since they already have a perfectly good standard in
> place.
Microsoft pressured ISO and allegedly used pseudo supporters to spam Lisa
Rajchel and do the insane. It was all corruption from the get-go.
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