Tracking the voting status of OOXML

Summary:

I am trying to keep a list of published votes on OOXML in order to get a rough estimate of the situation. Information is mostly based on this website (noooxml.org). Unfortunately, there still seem to be a lot of unclear votes. However, if anyone can provide me with additional information, I will update the list.

Tracking the status of OOXML

Anonymous (217.238.209.x) 31 Aug 2007 23:45

I am trying to keep a list of published votes on OOXML in order to get a rough estimate of the situation. Information is mostly based on this website (noooxml.org). Unfortunately, there still seem to be a lot of unclear votes. However, if anyone can provide me with additional information, I will update the list.
Current summary:
P-Members (40):
3 "yes", 5 "no", 5 "abstain", 27 unclear
O-Members:
3 "yes", 1 "no", 1 "abstain", 2 unclear

Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

stegu 01 Sep 2007 11:07

Norway voted "no", Standards Norway published a press release yesterday on that:
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18195/norway-says-no

Also, Brazil ("no") is now a P-member of JTC1/SC34.

The vote from Denmark will be disclosed on Monday, like the vote from the UK.

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Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

pieterh 01 Sep 2007 14:40

Belgium abstained, Palestine voted "no" according to this site.

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Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

Anonymous (217.238.238.x) 01 Sep 2007 15:28

I've had registered Palestine already.
I can't find the source for Belgium - could anyone provide a press release or similar?

Andreas Fischer (balanceofcowards)

Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

Anonymous (80.229.145.x) 02 Sep 2007 01:21

Hmmm - just checking, but from your summary table, there are 55 total members, and 10 have voted no already? Does that mean if 4 more vote no, OOXML is rejected? (25% of 55 = 13.75 ->14 no = fail?)

Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

Anonymous (80.229.145.x) 02 Sep 2007 01:23

nm - there are a lot more members :(

Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

bernhard 02 Sep 2007 17:22

Switzerland voted "Approval with comments", with just a single vote making it so (75.4%), and this after massive last-day committee stacking. One or two potential members who would have voted "Disapproval with comments" or some form of "Abstain" were not allowed to join because they left it too long or didn't check that their application was being processed.

Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

Anonymous (217.238.197.x) 03 Sep 2007 22:50

It seems that the vote on OOXML has failed.

According to the votes I gathered, within the JTC1 group of P-Members there are now 7 votes for "yes/approve", 13 votes for "no/disapprove", 5 abstains and 16 votes that have not been published yet. Thus a 2/3rds majority has become impossible (26 "yes"-votes needed to counter 13 "no"-votes, however only 23 "yes"-votes possible).

Thanks to everyone providing me with information.
I will continue to fill in the gaps until the official result is published.

Greetings
Andreas Fischer (balanceofcowards)

Re: Tracking the status of OOXML

Anonymous (130.226.173.x) 01 Sep 2007 12:54

The danish vote are a "No, with comments"

The comments can be fetched from http://www.ds.dk/_root/scripts/getmedia.asp?media_id=2791 and the (in english) press release from Dansk Standard from http://www.ds.dk/3867 (in danish)

Re: Tracking the voting status of OOXML

Anonymous (190.136.119.x) 01 Sep 2007 18:19

i'm from argentina:

argentina has abstained

http://www.vialibre.org.ar/2007/08/28/ooxml-informe-sobre-la-reunion-en-iram/

( you can link it via google translation -> english )

Re: Tracking the voting status of OOXML

Anonymous (194.204.108.x) 02 Sep 2007 08:14

Malta (P member) voted yes with comments, though I don't think it was formally published. Most of the valid comments were rejected, leaving only a small number of minor comments. The voting representatives were the head of Microsoft Malta, someone from the company which was Microsoft's agent for Malta until they opened their Malta office, someone from University who gave a counter-argument exactly identical to Microsoft's response to the India standards body, a lawyer, a representative of government, and a member of the local Linux user group, who provided all the comments about this DIS. With only one exception, everyone except the Linux guy voted exactly as Microsoft did. For one comment, the government representative agreed but only after changing from technical to general comment. That too was defeated.

Re: Tracking the voting status of OOXML

stegu 02 Sep 2007 11:47

Please consider writing this up as a news item of its own and submit it here. I have not read any details about Malta anywhere else before.

Re: Tracking the voting status of OOXML

Anonymous (200.126.226.x) 02 Sep 2007 14:55

Hungary abstains
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42070