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(Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n “Counting the countries, it is pretty certain that the votes are enough to get OOXML through this vote.” said Pieter Hintjens on the Noooxml-mailing list. A press release<\/a> for tomorrow has been prepared:<\/p>\n Geneva, 1 April 2008. The International Organization for (Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n [Update: <\/strong>On the OpenDoc mailing list Michiel Leenaars posted the official results which should probably be published by ISO on April, 2nd:<\/p>\n P-Members voting: 24 in favour out of 32 = 75 % (requirement >= 66.66%) Member bodies voting: 10 negative votes out of 71 = 14 % (requirement <= 25%)<\/p>\n Approved<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n In the meantime, Steve Pepper, the chairman of the Norwegian NB, formally protested against the “Yes”-vote of his country:<\/p>\n You will have been notified that Norway voted to approve OOXML in this ballot. This decision does not reflect the view of the vast majority of the Norwegian committee, 80% of which was against changing Norway\u2019s vote from No with comments to Yes.<\/p>\n Because of this irregularity, a call has been made for an investigation by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry with a view to changing the vote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n (Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n While a possible turn of this vote into “No” may have helped yesterday (while the Yes-votes where only 22\/32, or 68,75%), it may not be enough after all today, since at least two more countries would have to protest to make a change. Not that there would not have been reported enough irregularities in other NBs, like for example in Germany<\/a>, Romania<\/a>, Poland<\/a> and the list goes on<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Source) “Counting the countries, it is pretty certain that the votes are enough to get OOXML through this vote.” said Pieter Hintjens on the Noooxml-mailing list. A press release for tomorrow has been prepared: Geneva, 1 April 2008. The International Organization for Standardization announced at a press conference that its processes are “broken” and “need … Continue reading OOXML seems to be through… [updated]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ooxml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStandardization announced at a press conference that its processes are
\n“broken” and “need radical reform”. ISO president H\u00e5kan Murby told
\njournalists that “the Microsoft OOXML process was a near-disaster and
\nwe want to make sure such a thing never happens again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n(P-Members having abstained are not counted in this vote.)<\/p>\n\n