“Unfortunately, serious shortcomings have been identified in Microsoft’s support for ODF. Putting potentially millions of ODF files into circulation that are non-interoperable and incompatible with the ODF support provided by other vendors is a recipe for fragmentation.”
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If MEOOXML (Microsoft-ECMA Office Open XML) can pass through the contradiction without complaint, the 6,000 page specification describing XML encoding of MSOffice specific binary processes gets to move on to the fast track phase.
This is very sneaky stuff. Micrsoft tried to submit MEOOXML to ISO in mid December. Perhaps in hopes of catching an extra 20 or so days of holiday right in the midst of the critical 30 day contradiction review period. Apparently the USA representative to ISO JTSC1 refused the submission until after the hollidays. Still, with near zero publicity, and 6,000 pages of crap to sludge through, the review phase has begun.
IMHO, only the ODF experts can effectively point out the ocntradictions and inconsistencies with the MEOOXML submission. So this is a call for Rob Weir, Florian Reuter, Patrick Durusau, Sam Hiser, David A Wheeler, Bruce D'Arcus, the legendary Daniel Vogelheim, and the infamous Marbux to step forward with the full force of their expertise.
Since Florian has the most experience with the hapless and tragically deceptive MS-Novel-CleverAge Translator Project, where the glaringly obvious contradictions and inconsistencies are being hastily pasted over, i'm anxious to see where his blog takes us:
http://florianreuter.blogspot.com/
~ge~