There are a lot of people who have raised a great many issues which we don't think have a lot of practical merit, but serve the purpose of creating some anxiety during this process. Many of the comments that were submitted had common threads and were put together by people who oppose this activity. —Craig Mundie, Microsoft
All officially submitted technical comments
Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest one of all?
- http://www.jtc1sc34.org/repository/0904.zip was a collection of all +3500 comments submitted by National Standard bodies. However, they removed the files because of recently introduced secrecy procedures. Many of those can be found on http://www.DIS29500.org
For references in these comments cmp. the ECMA specification)
General Background Papers
Sample submissions
- Danish community submission to Danish standard organization.
Other Technical comments
The other side
ECMA (essentially a Microsoft proxy) has published a document to counter all the contradictions submitted by countries against the Fast Track. This document can be seen as the core of the counter-arguments by Microsoft to convince National Bodies that OOXML is a good thing. A very informative document on which arguments Microsoft will use to discuss with other stakehoders during the forthcoming meetings.
Edward Macnaghten has written a detailed analysis of the counter-arguments and his responses to them in Free Software Magazine.
Deadlines
See National Deadlines.
— the commenting phase is passed. But it is still important to raise awareness and spread the word about OOXML's technical flaws.
Now it is important that your national committee participates in the resolution of all the comments.
