OOXML approved as an ISO standard

OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 2, 2008 18:29 UTC (Wed) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #8483)
In reply to: OOXML approved as an ISO standard by bronson
Parent article: OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Indeed. So much for ISO. ISO has approved a standard that it hasn't even read. The text of the revised draft (which, among many other changes, has been split into eight parts and has 1500 new pages) was not available at the time of voting. I don't see how a standard organization's credibility can ever recover from that.

It's not all bad. We'll just have to go back to arguing for standards on their merits, instead of their stamps of approval :)

---

(Log in to post comments)

People don't care. Beside, most people will never even hear about the real story.

Question: How many people here ever heard about how ISO made a new standard before OOXML was
proposed ? 

Did anybody here care before OOXML came along ? I didn't.

That is the current situation for 99.9% of the world.

The only reputation ISO needs is in the name.

Ernest.