[Pkg-isocodes-devel] [Fsfe-ie] Ireland approved OOXML

[Alastair McKinstry]

Is there anything we can do in Ireland ?

I'm a debian developer, and created the 'iso-codes' package within  
Debian, now used in Gnome, KDE
and elsewhere, providing 'canonical' versions of the ISO-3166, ISO-639  
and ISO-4217 lists
(and more importantly, translations).

We on the iso-codes devel list are (translators, mostly, some devels)  
are looking for some act to show
our disapproval of how members of ISO have behaved.  Being Irish, I'm  
ashamed of the NSAI
change to ''approval''.

We need to do something to show that this is not the end of the  
affair; that our beef is very definitely with
those who pulled this stunt, and shamed the ISO and cause of  
standards.  In fact, those
responsible need to be identified and made pay with their jobs (or at  
least roles in ISO / NSAI).


Regards
Alastair

On 31 Mar 2008, at 11:04, 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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Regards,
Alastair

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