My friend, Jomar Silva from Brazil, who brought Ecma 376 fast track for XML to my attention a short while ago, sent me this link to the official ECMA response to ISO members. It seems like the "fast track" has failed and that it will now go through a longer review process.
The next step, as I understand it, is for the ISO "P" (for "Participating") members to participate in this and to vote on it five months from now. I believe that the "P" member for the United States is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). While I expect ANSI to do a better job than Microsoft, for something as important as XML we might want to keep an eye on this. md -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Jomar Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ecma responses to ISO Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:14:37 -0300 Hi Maddog, I've received yesterday a link to the oficial ECMA response to ISO members comments regarding the OpenXML Fast Track. Note that just the "P" (participant) members of ISO JTC1/SC34 where able to sent comments to ECMA (as far as I know, other members couldn't). The document can be accessed at http://www.computerworld.com/pdfs/Ecma.pdf. Best Regards, Jomar _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/