Czech vote is now “yes” for Open XML

I just saw this on Stephen McGibbon's website: https://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/25/czech-republic-votes-to-approve-dis29500.aspx

The Czech Republic has decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500. The Czech national body (led by Jirka Kosek) played an important role in the technical review of the spec and also with their contributions at the BRM towards improving the specification. They had a couple interactions with Ecma leading up to the January posting of the proposed dispositions and helped ensure that their issues were properly addressed.

It looks like that coordination really paid off, as they now feel Open XML is ready to become an ISO standard.

-Brian

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 25, 2008
  http://xmlguru.cz/2008/02/report-from-brm ...

• Anonymous
  March 28, 2008
  OOXML: prove tecniche di standardizzazione

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2008
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• Anonymous
  March 31, 2008
  Since Jiří Kosek already blogged back in January that he was now a YES, Czech Republic voting YES is no surprise. http://xmlguru.cz/2008/01/ecma-response-to-czech-ooxml-comments