P Country Upgrades Continue - and Document Committee Signups

Summary:

A. Updegrove reports: ever more countries sign up to the committees that are going to vote on OOXML (membership in a relevant JTC1 subcommittee has doubled...)

P Country Upgrades Continue - and Document Committee Signups

ggiedke 31 Aug 2007 17:01

it seems that troops are brought in position not only for the upcoming vote but also for the re-vote bound to happen if no consensus can be reached. Moreover, the next standards battle seems to be brewing as Adobe has submitted a new version of pdf to ISO and Microsoft is pushing a competing standard ("XML Paper Specification").

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070831072521575