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20 May: a day of anniversaries
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| Ultimately the situation raises questions which go to the heart of the
| relationship between JTC 1 as an entity, and its member bodies. Just who is
| in charge, the nations or the officials? The unfortunate state of the
| Directives have meant there have been too many occasions when officials have
| had to step in and save the nations from the folly of the Directives that
| they themselves approved. Like ODF and OOXML the Directives is (literally) a
| standard, a standard that has faults. Unlike ODF and OOXML, however, I am
| beginning to believe the Directives have got to a state where they cannot be
| redeemed by evolution and amendment. It may be time to start again from
| scratch.
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http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry080520-161544
Big ouch! Right from the horse's mouth. Again.
Related:
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
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| [...]
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| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
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