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The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move (Groklaw)

[Posted October 2, 2008 by cook]

Groklaw looks into a move by the ISO/IEC SC 34 committee. "Guess what the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, is up to now? I call it a takeover attempt of ODF, according to my reading of the published notes of the most recent meeting held yesterday, October 1st, and starring a document titled "Request to JTC 1 for alignment of OASIS and JTC 1 Maintenance Procedures." Uh oh. That sounds polite, but it is what it is. An attempted coup. They have already sent a "Liaison Statement" to OASIS."

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Posted Oct 3, 2008 0:00 UTC (Fri) by jhardin (guest, #3297) [Link]

Fascinating. Are we witnessing Microsoft murdering a standards body? (Or, at least, rendering it irrelevant.)

I suppose that's one way to deal with that pesky "interoperability" nonsense.

The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move (Groklaw)

Posted Oct 3, 2008 7:03 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

At this point that's ISO trying to make OASIS as irrelevant as possible as fast as possible. ISO suffered a lot in comparisons to OASIS last year, since they don't intend to fix their problems they need to break the OASIS ones ASAP or OOXML will continue to be a PR disaster.