Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Summary:

First technical committee vote to disapproval OOXML. Then second technical committee vote to approval with comments. Official Polish opinion is "approval with comments".

Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (83.26.62.x) 02 Sep 2007 08:40

First Polish technical committee number 171 vote to disapproval OOXML (81.82% votes to disapproval). Then second Polish technical committee number 182 vote to approval with comments (17 votes to approval with comments, 3 votes to abstain). Official Polish opinion is "approval with comments". There are some serious questions:
1. Why Poland say YES while technical committee number 171 say NO?
2. Why Polish decision carry from technical committee number 171 to technical committee number 182?
3. Why public opinions which 24 were negative and 21 were positive do not care?

Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (83.26.37.x) 03 Sep 2007 08:29

Source (in Polish) http://www.pkn.pl/index.php?pid=dis29500&cid=

Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (193.35.134.x) 03 Sep 2007 12:44

1. Because Technical Committee 182 was looking into DIS29500, not Technical Committee 171
2. ditto
3. Suggests public comments were balanced

Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (195.225.107.x) 03 Sep 2007 13:50

1. Because Technical Committee 182 was looking into DIS29500, not Technical Committee 171

TC 171 - Technical Committee for Computer Software and Networks
TC 182 - Technical Committee for Information Privacy (protection?) in Computer Systems (sic!)

Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

pieterh 03 Sep 2007 15:04

Hey, next time let's start new committees, "Technical Committee for Numerical Accuracy in Computer Systems" and declare that only our committee is the competent committee…

It would be useful to document who TC 182 really is, and how they became the authority on this issue when it's surely TC 171's job.

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Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (194.29.137.x) 03 Sep 2007 15:19

http://kt.pkn.pl/?pid=czkt&id=182

The reason of moving the issue from TC171 to TC182 is quite unclear. More on that matter - http://polishlinux.org/poland/poland-vote-for-microsoft-ooxml/

Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (80.224.2.x) 03 Sep 2007 15:29

1. False: Technical Committee 171 studied DIS 29500 technically during months and decided to reject it based on technical flaws. Later magically appeared a new committee, with little relation with the matter (security), that was designated as the one in charge of to decide the vote. Curiously only Microsoft friends were allowed to be members of that committee and nobody that could risk a vote "approval without (!) comments" was allowed to get into.

2) also ditto.

3) Yes, totally balanced toward Microsoft particular interests.

Detailed information is provided by PolishLinux.

But basically, if you don't like what your technical committee concludes of its study… Change the committee!

Re: Poland say NO and YES, another scandal?

Anonymous (80.224.2.x) 03 Sep 2007 16:06

More information about the arbitrary change of committee when the matter was already assigned and in study by one committee competent in the matter, to another committee with almost no relation with the matter (apart that almost all its members were Microsoft friends/partners).

Who knows the name of the corrupt?

Say here!

It is incredible that these things appear in a democratic country of the European Union.