Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30225/promise-of-ooxml-oversight-by-iso-falls-through Posts in the discussion thread "Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through" - Rob Weir reports that MSFT is backtracking on its promise to let ISO have oversight of and possible OOXML standard. http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30225#post-76803 Promise of OOXML Oversight By ISO Falls Through http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30225/promise-of-ooxml-oversight-by-iso-falls-through#post-76803 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:59:53 +0000 ggiedke 32664 In his Dec 6 blog entry
http://www.robweir.com/blog/
reports how Microsoft first promised through many spokespeople that stewardship of OOXML would be handed over to ISO, but "Ecma's "Proposal for a Joint Maintenance Plan" [pdf] outlines quite a different vision for how OOXML will be maintained. A summary of the proposed terms:
* OOXML remains under Ecma (Microsoft) control under Ecma IPR policy.
* Ecma TC45 will accept a liaison from JTC1/SC34 who can participate on maintenance activities and only maintenance activities.
* […]"

There are discussions at Groklaw http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071206131310362 and Slashdot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/06/2129203 on this news.

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