South Africa Appeals Approval of OOXML
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As the clock ticks down, the appeals are piling up objecting to OOXML's approval by ISO/IEC. The latest appeal was sent today by Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), the National Body representing Brazil, and a trusted source has sent me a copy (other knowledgeable sources tell me that as many as two additional appeals are likely to be filed before the clock runs out). Brazil's appeal objects to some of the same issues raised by South Africa, but also includes a laundry list of actions and inactions at the BRM that have also been well-aired in blog posts by BRM participants, including refusals to hear a proposal urged by Brazil, poor decisions based not on good results but on expediency, and much more.
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Whether or not this latest appeal will be rejected out of hand or allowed to become the subject of serious consideration remains to be seen. Presumably some of the examples given above will receive scant attention, given that ISO was represented at the meeting, and participated in the decision making that lay behind the key decisions made at the time. But with each additional appeal that is filed, one would hope that a review of the process will be found to be more urgent, given the evident unhappiness of National Bodies that attended the BRM in good faith, and left unsatisfied not with the result, but what they had witnessed in the course of a long and frustrating week in Geneva. Full Story |
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