{"id":78,"date":"2008-07-17T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T08:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-07-17T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T08:24:36","slug":"invisible-standards-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/invisible-standards-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible Standards Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Weir has put up an interesting, yet very sarcastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/toy-soliders.html\">blog about the future of OOXML<\/a>. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[&#8230;] Another example of working on autopilot is the ad-hoc working group in SC34 [ISO subcommittee for document description and processing languages] looking at OOXML maintenance. Although it was heralded with much pomp &#8220;SC takes control of OOXML&#8221;, the fact is SC34 currently can&#8217;t even look at OOXML [the final text was still not released], let alone maintain it. They are entirely impotent. But still they will go through the motions and meet next week in London to advise Alex Brown [the convenor at the Ballot Resolution Meeting on OOXML in Geneva in Februrary], who will then take all this advice and later formulate and write up his OOXML maintenance plan for SC34 to vote on.<\/p>\n<p>All the best to them. They voted on OOXML without seeing it. Now they&#8217;ll determine how to maintain it without seeing it. Maybe ISO should stand for Invisible Standards Organization? Maybe one of the participants can let me know where can I submit my invisible defect report?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><small>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/toy-soliders.html\">Source<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>He says it is likely that Ecma takes over the maintenance of ISO OOXML, as it would be the best for this &#8220;Microsoft-only standard&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who is better positioned to clarify exactly how Excel financial functions work, the Microsoft engineer who has access to the Excel source code, or an SC34 representative from Khazakstan?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No strings attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Weir has put up an interesting, yet very sarcastic blog about the future of OOXML. From the article: [&#8230;] Another example of working on autopilot is the ad-hoc working group in SC34 [ISO subcommittee for document description and processing languages] looking at OOXML maintenance. Although it was heralded with much pomp &#8220;SC takes control &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/invisible-standards-organization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Invisible Standards Organization<\/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-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ooxml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}