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		<title>Robbery at the BRM?</title>
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		<description>Posts in the discussion thread &quot;Robbery at the BRM?&quot; - LinuxWorld mentions that the BRM organisors are making a paper ballot on all the 900 comments. It seems that the BRM organisors are &quot;robbing national delegations of the opportunity to propose their own modifications&quot;.</description>
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				<title>Re: Robbery at the BRM?</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <blockquote> <p>Who will fix the standard now?</p> </blockquote> <p><em>And all the King's horses and all the King's men<br /> couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.</em></p> <p>ECMA376 is such a huge mess that I doubt anybody can "fix" it.<br /> What it needs is thorough redesign and a rewrite, not a quick fix.</p> <p>"Hey, you forgot the yeast. And the salt. And most of the flour."<br /> "No, we have it all right here."<br /> "It was supposed to go in the bread, and it's already baking."<br /> "Yes, we know. Don't worry, we'll add it later. Thanks for your comment."</p> 
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				<title>Robbery at the BRM?</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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						 <p>LinuxWorld <a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/022708-debate-on-ooxml-standard-continues.html?page=2">mentions</a> that the BRM organisors are making a paper ballot on all the 900 comments. It seems that the BRM organisors are robbing national delegations of the opportunity to propose their own modifications:</p> <blockquote> <p>The committee must find some way to deal with all 1,100 comments by Friday night — although that may not mean discussing them individually. Three proposals are apparently on the table for disposing of comments unresolved at the end of the meeting: to accept ECMA's recommendations without modification, to reject ECMA's recommendations and leave the draft unchanged on the unresolved matters, or to conduct a paper ballot on each.</p> <p>While the third of those options sounds the most democratic, <strong>it robs national delegations of the opportunity to propose their own modifications, say those involved</strong>. Yet allowing delegations to submit other options to a paper ballot after the meeting is itself fraught with complications, as there is no guarantee of a majority vote — and then no meeting in which to reach consensus.</p> </blockquote> <p>The purpose of this robbery might be to avoid any fix to the standard. MS-ECMA have not proposed any changes, and this robbery is designed to get the message that the BRM have fixed some issues.</p> <p>Who will fix the standard now?</p> 
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