It's simply easier to download the ECMA versions corresponding to ISO/IEC 
29500.  They are kept synchronized, and the ECMA versions are easier to find 
and are always free.  This avoids inadvertently paying the exorbitant ISO fees 
for their specifications.

To obtain the free versions at ISO/IEC, not the ones normally offered from the 
ISO site, you have to know how to find them on a list of all free versions from 
ISO and go to the trouble of getting all of the parts and supporting files.  
ECMA makes it easier to find all of the latest ECMA-376 in one place.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 08:37
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ODF 1.2 links

> On 17 Jul 2015, at 10:29 pm, jan i <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 17 July 2015 at 17:22, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 6:47 pm, jan i <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> For those working on ODF this blog might be of interest.
>>> 
>> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/17/open-document-format-odf-1-2-published-as-international-standard-263002015-by-isoiec/
>> 
>> ...
>> 
> ODF 1.2 has been around since 2011 as standard, but has just now been voted
> in as ISO standard.

Ok great - and I just noticed near the bottom of the page you linked to it 
states: "ECMA-376 4th edition is technically aligned with ISO/IEC 29500”.

It’s also probably worth updating the link at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML (which, ironically, is the top 
hit on google for the search term “OOXML”).

—
Dr Peter M. Kelly
[email protected]

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