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Oasis forms ODF committee
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| The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) requested at the
| beginning of October that ODF maintenance work be aligned between Oasis and
| ISO, in a move that Groklaw's Pamela Jones described as "a takeover attempt
| of ODF". Groklaw alleged that ISO's SC34 committee, which oversees the
| development of Microsoft's rival OOXML format, was "tilted by Microsoft
| employees". SC34 would be in charge of ISO's ODF work.
|
| However, Alex Brown, the convener of SC34, told ZDNet Asia sister site ZDNet
| UK at the time that Jones's post was "chock-full of misinformation and spin".
| ISO/IEC standards have to be managed and published by ISO/IEC committees even
| if they are created elsewhere, Brown said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62047985,00.htm
Recent:
SC34 thanked Microsoft Korea for the dinner
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| The company from Redmond is heavily investing in the ISO SC34 committee.
| Thanks to a brazilian blogger who manage to shed some light on what was going
| on in there, we hear now that Microsoft Korea was paying for dinner.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-95230/sc34-thanked-microsoft-korea-for-the-dinner
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'
|
| [...]
|
| 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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