-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Most of the older voting nations voted against the proposal. It was the flood of new voting members that shifted the outcome. The big problem is that for an ISO standard, 50% of the voting members need to actually vote. For future votes, it is unlikely that a significant portion of the new members will actually bother to vote. This is what essentially killed ISO. The ISO did not sell out, but all the new members who pimped themselves out who did. The ISO committee members are well aware of what happened, and are not particularly happy about it.
- From the LJ article: This sudden influx of "P" members with little interest in the general business of refining and approving standards has already had a negative impact on the running of the ISO. Here's what Martin Bryan, the convenor of the ISO JTC1 workgroup had to say soon afterwards: The influx of P members whose only interest is the fast-tracking of ECMA 376 [OOXML] as ISO 29500 has led to the failure of a number of key ballots. Though P members are required to vote, 50% of our current members, and some 66% of our new members, blatantly ignore this rule despite weekly email reminders and reminders on our website. As ISO require at least 50% of P members to vote before they start to count the votes we have had to reballot standards that should have been passed and completed their publication stages at Kyoto. This delay will mean that these standards will appear on the list of WG1 standards that have not been produced within the time limits set by ISO, despite our best efforts. He concluded by warning: The days of open standards development are fast disappearing. Instead we are getting “standardization by corporation”, something I have been fighting against for the 20 years I have served on ISO committees. I am glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible. I wish my colleagues every success for their future efforts, which I sincerely hope will not prove to be as wasted as I fear they could be. Shawn wrote: > It should be noted that Canada voted to dis-approve OOXML. It's nice to > know that the Canadian team didn't sell out as bad as some of the others. > > As for the T-Shirt. A white T with marker count?? LOL > > Shawn > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> It seems ISO now stands for "I Sold Out" >>> >> Nice ;-) >> >> Prize to whoever wears a T-Shirt with a modified ISO logo to the meeting. >> Simon. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH8uM1wRXgH3rKGfMRAmK1AJ93lkXpQgXR3L4LO0dEnWKOGZRQ4ACeN7ZV Yk72P9T55B6CcKUKLQz0nOE= =LCJ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
