South Africa officially challenged OOXML voting results
The impartial remarks of Microsoft's top manager to the leadership of South Africa and the whole of this country turned out to be not unfounded. And it's not just that Ubuntu and OpenBSD are from here, but the government is promoting Open Source at the state level. It became known yesterday that South Africa was the first country to formally protest the OOXML vote, recently adopted by the ISO.
Formal reasons were violations of several provisions of the process during the voting:
1. According to clause 13.4, any national committee may make objections to contradictions with existing standards or JTC1, IEC or ISO projects that need to be settled with the standard on the fast-track procedure, and the process should be open to all national committees.
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Although there were no objections from many national committees, this process was not carried out - instead, the JTC1 secretariat stated that this would be “unproductive” and ignored these requirements.
2. According to clause 13.8, all group decisions must be made by consensus or by voting according to JTC1 procedures.
Instead, ECMA, having considered only 67 objections out of 1027, suggested “vote in batches” for the rest - that is, the work of many experts in many countries was ignored and, instead of improving the standard, they received package approval that undermines the idea of ​​jointly improving the international standard.
3. South Africa also objected to the applicability of the voting procedure itself, which was applied in accordance with clause 9.14.
4. According to clause 13.12, no later than one month after the final meeting of the conciliation commission, the final specification should be provided.
And the fact is that it was not only at the moment of voting - it is still missing and there are no signs at all that it will appear soon, which means that there is no document ready for the fast-track procedure at all.
Therefore, South Africa, as a P-Member, objects to the whole process from start to finish.
Incidentally, in the UK there is a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the British Standardization Institute, initiated by the UK Unix and the Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) over the UK vote.
via linux.org.ru
Formal reasons were violations of several provisions of the process during the voting:
1. According to clause 13.4, any national committee may make objections to contradictions with existing standards or JTC1, IEC or ISO projects that need to be settled with the standard on the fast-track procedure, and the process should be open to all national committees.
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Although there were no objections from many national committees, this process was not carried out - instead, the JTC1 secretariat stated that this would be “unproductive” and ignored these requirements.
2. According to clause 13.8, all group decisions must be made by consensus or by voting according to JTC1 procedures.
Instead, ECMA, having considered only 67 objections out of 1027, suggested “vote in batches” for the rest - that is, the work of many experts in many countries was ignored and, instead of improving the standard, they received package approval that undermines the idea of ​​jointly improving the international standard.
3. South Africa also objected to the applicability of the voting procedure itself, which was applied in accordance with clause 9.14.
4. According to clause 13.12, no later than one month after the final meeting of the conciliation commission, the final specification should be provided.
And the fact is that it was not only at the moment of voting - it is still missing and there are no signs at all that it will appear soon, which means that there is no document ready for the fast-track procedure at all.
Therefore, South Africa, as a P-Member, objects to the whole process from start to finish.
Incidentally, in the UK there is a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the British Standardization Institute, initiated by the UK Unix and the Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) over the UK vote.
via linux.org.ru
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/26410/
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