Australia abstains

Summary:

Standards Australia has cast a vote to abstain from the ISO/IEC JTC1 ballot to adopt the DIS 29500 Office Open XML format draft standard as an International Standard. The decision to cast an abstain vote from the current ballot follows months of consultation and a clear lack of consensus in Australia on this issue by stakeholders.

Australia abstains

ggiedke 03 Sep 2007 06:41

Another abstention due to "clear lack of consensus". Notice that it seems that in Australia the committees were not stuffed:

“Over the past few years Standards Australia has attempted to establish a technical committee of industry, government and academic stakeholders to take carriage of this and other document description and processing issues. Due to lack of support and stakeholder commitment to ongoing engagement in the International Standards development process in this area it was not viable to convene an appropriate technical committee.

http://www.standards.org.au/downloads/070903_SA_decision_on_OOXML.pdf

Re: Australia abstains

Anonymous (211.30.163.x) 04 Sep 2007 04:43

We had a forum about it here in Sydney, back on Aug 8th.

Report from Australia - the OOXML Forum
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070809103920651
It was believed we would vote for YES with comments.

I guess not! Abstain!
(Could it be enough people voiced their concerns by the August 21st deadline?)

Re: Australia abstains

tanyaacatherine 03 Nov 2008 02:18

After a lengthy deliberation, Australia's peak standards development body has revealed it carried on its motion to abstain from voting on the status of the controversial document format, citing a lack of consensus amongst its members as reason for bypassing the decision.

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