India Third to Appeal ISO's OOXML Approval

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "India is now the third country to appeal the ISO's approval of OOXML, with their appeal arriving just before the deadline last night. According to PC World, this makes OOXML the first BRM process under ISO/JTC 1 to be appealed, which leaves us in uncharted territory. Although there was substantial confusion in the comments on yesterday's story, Brazil is really appealing, not merely disapproving, of OOXML, having sent a letter that begins with 'The Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), as a P member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC34, would like to present, to ISO/IEC/JTC1 and ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC34, this appeal for reconsideration of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 final result.' Groklaw speculates that this may have something to do with Microsoft hedging their bets by supporting ODF 1.1 in Office 2007, though we probably won't see any more countries appeal now that the deadline has passed."

Re:sheesh

[Anonymous Coward]

IVe EXCELENT karma

My dogma is to browse at -1. Karma don't kount!

Re:Fourth country on the way

[mrbluze]

How many are required to make it official?

I think the appeal has to be modded +4 insightful or +5 interesting otherwise Microsoft will just mod it +5 funny and the mod points go down the gurgler.

Re:Fourth country on the way

[Anonymous Coward]

But the appeal is a response to (-1, Troll) attempt by Microsoft to undermine ISO. Microsoft has no right to mod because of that.

Re:Fast Track

[jd]

No, I've a much better idea. Place the specification on a genuine fast track - say, the Monte Carlo F1 circuit - and let it be utterly crushed into oblivion before being smeared across the landscape.

Re:Fourth country on the way

[tzot]

Microsoft can't post and mod in the same committee. Or can they?