Monthly Archives: February 2008
Groklaw: OOXML Fails to Get Majority Approval at BRM – Updated 3Xs
Andy Updegrove has the results in detail here, including a breakdown of the votes. Basically, there were too many proposed changes to be able to cover them in the BRM, so they tried a workaround, but the upshot is … it’s a mess. Oddly, despite the rules, Alex Brown, Updegrove reports, allowed non P countries to vote, but OOXML still couldn’t get a majority of the delegations to back it at the BRM. Nor is it clear that allowing non P countries to vote is even legitimate. Now it’s the 30-day voting period, but Updegrove asks, if they never could discuss all the issues, which is the purpose of a BRM, what’s the basis for a vote? And with the vast majority either voting to abstain or even refusing to vote as a protest, I think one may conclude this proposal didn’t belong on the fast track, and it isn’t getting the kind of support you would have thought it might, given all the muscle that has gone into the push to get OOXML approved. Continue reading
ConsortiumInfo.org: Showdown in Geneva – OOXML BRM Vote
Updated March 1: You can find an interview by Sean Daly at Groklaw where I go into greater detail on what was happening in Geneva and why it matters. See also the links added at the end of this entry, most of which are by BRM delegates
A rather incredible week in Geneva has just ended, bringing to a close the Herculean task assumed by the over 100 delegates from 32 countries that attended the BRM. That challenge, of course, was how to productively resolve the more than 1,100 comments (after elimination of duplicates) registered by the 87 National Bodies that voted last summer with respect to a specification that itself exceeded 6,000 pages. … Continue reading
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I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the bytesfree-discuss mailing list. You can subscribe here.
BytesFree.org to “Launch” at SCALE
If you’ve been reading this site, you may be surprised to know that we haven’t ever officially “launched.” We just sort of came to be and started blogging on the AB 1668 process. As we look to extend the number … Continue reading