Doug Mahugh, Microsoft's Open XML Chief evangelist went to Malaysia:
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2008/03/19/pikom-meeting-in-malaysia.aspx

I was told when I first heard of the meeting that it would be a debate on the technical details of Malaysia's 23 comments on DIS29500, to help PIKOM's members understand the issues of most importance to Malaysia. The concept was that IBM would provide five persons who feel Malaysia's comments hadn't been addressed, and Microsoft would provide five people who felt that Malaysia's concerns had been addressed, and we would debate the 23 comments at a PIKOM meeting on Wednesday evening. But when we arrived Yoon Kit wasn't there, and then I heard he had other plans and couldn't make it. Then on his blog post today YK said the meeting was restricted to PIKOM members, which doesn't make sense because most of the people in the room weren't PIKOM members and instead were representatives of big tech companies like IBM, Oracle, Google, and Microsoft, or members of the Malaysian open-source community like Yusseri Yusoff and Dinesh Nair.

Yoon Kit responded with a blog post to Doug Mahugh:
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-elephant-in.html

YK is very concerned about the process and explains what they do in Malaysia to defend their institutions against vendor stuffing and hostile takeovers:

Now, a little bit about IASA. They project themselves to be a neutral party who is only interested in the architecture of software systems. I don't doubt that as their International body is kosher, but judging by the representatives in Malaysia they keep sending to TC4, its certainly NOT looking after the interests of the nation.

More often than not the rep is consistently looking after the interest of his own company, and its business partners. I know that's not abnormal in other nations where TCs are allowed to be stacked, but in Malaysia, we worked hard in making sure that commercial vested interest parties are kept at bay from our standards development.

But he found Doug somewhere else in Malaysia:

Anyway, without thinking much more about it, I turned up at the SIRIM meeting room this morning. The first person I see seated is Mr Doug Mahugh. Yes, he is the "Senior Product Manager" at Microsoft USA. And he is here in the SIRIM building. Its nice to see him here, but … whats going on?

* Is he Malaysian? No.
* Is he a TC4 member? No … SIRIM decided to make Microsoft a co-opted member, and it was made clear that this meeting excluded all co-opted members.
* Is he an expert? Yes, but SIRIM never requested for an expert from a co-opted member.
* Would he have Malaysia's interests before his corporation? I dunno, but I somehow doubt it.

So whom does Doug represent there?

So anyway, I find out, from the business card, that Doug is representing our friends from IASA! He even has a business card and all! Sure, IASA is an international body for software architects, but Doug Mahugh is actually a VP for IASA, specifically, for Malaysia!

Who represented Malaysia at the BRM

MALAYSIA * Dr. Raslan Bin AHMAD Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
MALAYSIA Ms. Salwa DENAN SIRIM Berhad
MALAYSIA Mr. Yong Kit YONG Federation of Malaysian Manufacturer