The OOXML BRM: Secrets and statistics
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| 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.)
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| What an utter and predictable embarrassment.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2090
Geneva Warning
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| 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.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/03/03/Geneva-Warning
Yesterday:
The Art of Being Mugged
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| The four options presented were:
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| * 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.
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| 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?
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| We break for lunch.
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| 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
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