Due to ambiguities and procedural reservations that materialized recently during the works of KT-182 committee, companies Google, IBM plus the polish „Foundation Of Free and Open Software” and part of members of KT-171 committee submitted a letter to the chairman of Polish Normalizing Committee (PKN) asking him to make PKN take neutral position in the voting over OOXML standarization in JTC.
On 9th August mr. Tomasz Schweitzer (deputy of The PKN chairman) informed the public opinion that KT 171 PKT is the basic committee in this case, but meantime KT 182 started it's own consultations in the matter of the project. KT 171 gave a negative opinion about the norm project with large majority of votes (82%).
For no obvious reason, the case was moved to KT 182, wchich during confidental voting decided to give a positive opinion about the norm project. Committee 182 also decided not to take (negative) votes of KT 171 under consideration. PKN till now has not explained why the project was reviewed by two committees or why the works were unexpectedly moved from one committee to another.
Nobody from PKN has also explained how is that possible that one committee has produced „disapproval” opinion while the other "approval with comments" and only the opinion of the second is valid. The position of KT 182 is also completely incomprehensible as most of submitted opinions stated an objection to normalize OOXML.
All that incidents causes that Poland is not able to state clear and fair opinion in the case of OOXML specification. Polish Normalization Committee (PKN) has found itself in a situation where two technical committees voted differently, so companies, organization and private persons stated above believe that the proper decision is to abstain from voting.
http://quest-88.jogger.pl/2007/09/03/en-protest-against-the-position-of-kt-182-committee/
