RE: [xml-dev] Results of Open XML balloting at INCITS

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'Robin Cover'" <robin@...>,<ken_north@...>
• Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:03:13 +0100

> 
> For readers interested in some of the raw (ballot) data, and 
> additional commentary:
> 
> http://xml.coverpages.org/NIST-ConditionalApprovalVote.html#notes
> 

And for those who haven't understood the context, as I didn't at first, this
is all an internal debate about how the US intends to cast its vote at ISO.
Many of the headlines (for example "Microsoft one vote short of fast-track
OOXML ISO standardization") fail to make this clear.

I haven't seen any evidence that the US decision will influence the many
other national standards bodies who will also be voting. Since the whole
point about the fast-track process is that it's only supposed to be used
when things are uncontroversial, I would have thought many countries will
vote no purely on that basis.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/