[Fsfe-ie] Ireland approved OOXML

[Ryan Meade]

Enterprise, Trade and Employment it seems:

http://www.nsai.ie/uploads/file/nsaiact1996.pdf

Ryan

On 7 Apr 2008, at 13:47, Éibhear wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what government department the NSAI belongs to? I  
> know
> it's an independent body, but it gets its funding from somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Éibhear
>
> Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
>>
>> Just got off the phone to NSAI.  Ireland's vote was for approval.   
>> Worse,
>> it
>> now looks certain that MS's OOXML will get overall approval.
>>
>> A running tally of votes is being kept on Andy Updegrove's blog:
>> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php? 
>> story=20080329071456170
>>
>> The NSAI's vote in September was for disapproval, and their press  
>> release
>> said that they would only change their vote:
>>
>>   "If the Technical Comments are satisfactorily resolved and  
>> incorporated
>>    into a new draft".
>>
>> IFSO wrote to NSAI reminding them of this earlier this month:
>> http://www.ifso.ie/documents/correspondence/20080311iso-ooxml2.pdf
>> (Thanks to Ben North for getting that letter written and sent)
>>
>> Given the mess that was the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva
>> (where
>> it was decided there was just no time to discuss the problems, so  
>> ISO just
>> had a bulk vote and approved everything without review), I'm very
>> surprised
>> that anyone could conclude that Ireland's Technical Comments were
>> resolved.
>>
>> I put links to reports of the BRM in a blog entry:
>> http://www.fsfe.org/de/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/ 
>> reading_the_recent_post_brm_ooxml_news
>>
>> More news is appearing on:
>> http://groklaw.net/
>> http://www.noooxml.org/
>>
>> Allegations of vote irregularities among European national standards
>> bodies
>> are rife.
>>
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