ISO approval: A good process gone bad

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 24, 2008 4:04 PM EDT
Red Hat Magazine; By Melanie Chernoff and Jonathan Robie
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ISO’s JTC-1 directives were designed to provide a fair, consensus-based way to design standards that are portable, interoperable, and adaptable to all languages and cultures. The OOXML proposal has suffered from two basic problems: (1) voting irregularities, and (2) the use of a fast-track process for a complex, new, large specification that has not received adequate industry review. The resulting specification was driven almost exclusively by one vendor, has not achieved industry consensus, and has had thousands of issues logged against it, largely due to issues involving implementability, portability, and interoperability.

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