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OpenDocument is an ISO standard
The ODF Alliance has send out a press release "congratulating" the International Organization for Standardization for its approval of the OpenDocument format as a recognized standard. "Approval of the OpenDocument Format by ISO marks an important
milestone in the effort to help governments solve the very real problem of
finding a better way to preserve, access and control their documents now
and in the future," said Marino Marcich, Executive Director of the ODF
Alliance. "There's no doubt that this broad vote of support will serve as a
springboard for adoption and use of ODF around the world."
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OpenDocument is an ISO standard Posted May 3, 2006 15:32 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] So, one question--does this standard have a number (like the famous ISO 9001, or the not-so-famous ISO 3103/BS6008 "How to make a standard cup of tea")?
(I have a paper copy of the aforementioned tea standard, by the way...it really does exist.)
Standard number Posted May 3, 2006 15:34 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] According to Groklaw it's ISO/IEC 26300.
Standard number Posted May 3, 2006 15:44 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] OK, after doing my basic research, (sorry!) here's the link: ISO/IEC DIS 26300: Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 Only 64 Swiss francs, for a limited time only! :-)
Impossibly fast Posted May 4, 2006 7:35 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] This approval happened so fast by the standards of official standards bodies that it actually makes me doubt if this can be real ... Isn't several years more typical? (recall the travails of the C++ standard.)
Impossibly fast Posted May 4, 2006 13:38 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link] If you look at the aforementioned ISO link, the status is 40.60, which references the Harmonized Stage Codes table (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/widepages/stagetable.html#40), and refers to a point in the Enquiry stage. What we have is a DIS that has been voted on. We aren't into 50, which is Approval.
Mitigating myself Posted May 4, 2006 23:07 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link] Which, if you read Groklaw, is acknowledged -- so we have internal passage of the standard, and now it's i-dotting time. See the Groklaw link above for Andy Updegrove's upde-take.
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