Work on this in the Norwegian government has
been going on for years. I worked on this for four months, producing
a 45-page report. This blog posting oversimplifies most of the way
through in the interests of brevity.
The full report is here,
and if you can read Norwegian you can post your feedback in the form
on that page.
Ever since ODF and OOXML burst onto the scene in ISO SC34 I've
tried to avoid getting pulled into the mess. I was quite successful at
this for several years, until one day one our managers at Bouvet suggested we bid for a
contract to write a report for the Norwegian government (strictly
speaking, the Agency for Public
Management and eGovernment (Difi)). The report was about whether
to recommend/require ODF and/or OOXML in the Norwegian public
sector. I couldn't come up with any valid excuses for not doing it,
and so we sent in a bid, and in the end won the contract.