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INCITS Executive Board to vote on "Approval with comments"

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The INCITS executive board has been meeting this week, and today they decided to issue a ballot for "Approval with comments." They'll reach a decision within the executive board on this proposed position by mid-August, which allows plenty of time for subsequent discussion or another vote if needed before the final US position is due on September 2.

As Tom Robertson, Microsoft's GM of Interoperability and Standards, said today:

"The decision by the INCITS Executive Board to issue a ballot of “yes” with comments shows positive momentum behind ISO/IEC ratification of Open XML. It reflects the importance of allowing users to choose the format that best meets their needs, and the fact that innovation and evolution will take place over time. We respect the INCITS process and look forward to working within it over the coming weeks."

Note that the "Approval with comments" position would include all of the comments submitted to V1, including both the processed and unprocessed comments, as well as the comments submitted through the public INCITS web site.

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  • Anonymous
    July 19, 2007
    Well, it has been a busy week as can be expected leading up to the early September finish to the 5 month

  • Anonymous
    July 19, 2007
    There is great news coming from Doug today. The INCITS executive board in The States which handles the

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
    Doug Mahugh has another update on what's going on with the US review of the Open XML standard. They've

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
    All adopted technical comments should be put in a NO vote, which is something like a conditional Yes vote if the comments are resolved. Not doing that is just ignoring that there are severe problems in OOXML.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
    Marc, I think these interpretations lead into the question of what is meant by "other" comments, and what constitutes a technical comment as opposed to an editorial comment.  I don't know enough about these details to have a meaningful opinion, so I'm going to leave debate on interpretation of JTC 1 directives to the experts.

  • Anonymous
    July 20, 2007
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    July 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2007
    The various members of INCITS here in the US have been busy the last two weeks, with the technical committee

  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2007
    The various members of INCITS here in the US have been busy the last two weeks, with the technical committee