[Chapter-delegates] ooXML

[Erkki I. Kolehmainen]

One should also note that the participation fee may be considered excessive
in some countries. E.g., in Sweden I know two experts who no longer for this
reason participate in the work of SIS TK445 (character sets, cultural
elements et al.), although one of them has been regularly doing consultancy
work in this field also for TK445 and ETSI HF and another one is active in
e.g. the work of the Unicode Consortium.

Overall, after having participated in the work of ISO/IEC JTC1 (primarily
SC2), CEN ISSS (primarily CDFG and CEN Workshops in addition to the late
TC304), the Unicode Consortium (primarily CLDRTC), and IETF (primarily
LTRU), I have quite some faith in the ability of these organizations to fix
problems as they arise (although I have negative experiences particularly
with JTC1/SC22/WG20 and SC35 which have been led down the garden path,
although mostly individuals instead of the IT industry).

Regards    

Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Tilkankatu 12 A 3, FI-00300 Helsinki, Finland
Puh. (09) 4368 2643, 0400 825 943; Tel. +358 9 4368 2643, +358 400 825 943  

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[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] Puolesta borka at e5.ijs.si
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Vastaanottaja: james at musicforhumans.com
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Aihe: Re: [Chapter-delegates] ooXML


James wrote:

>I'd like to suggest that we try to bulk up our presence in any group 
>that has
influence with ISO in order to keep the votes on standardization as balanced

as possible. In other words, if 14 Microsoft partners sign up in Belgium in 
the week before the next vote (in February, I think?), then we should try to

get at least 12 non-aligned professionals to join as well. Just to keep the 
votes more equitable. This may be a short-term defense against a short-term 
offense, and may provide breathing room to rework the ISO process after we 
stop the OOXML fast track.

Unfortunately, this is not so easy. The number of 
Board members is restricted. In Slovenia it is 15!
The last three members signed a month before the
voting. Changing of the board members number requires
changing of some statute related documents ......

I would rather focus on the term PAS that in this
case was used  or misused by ECMA and the document
was on voting on the highest possible state (DIS
international standard).  If the document was
submitted regularly to the TC then all deficiencies
and mistakes  could be worked out by real experts.


With regards,

Borka



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