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ISO/IEC DIS 29500 Office Open XML Standard Approval Contested

June 18, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS

 
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Four national standards body members of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) - Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela - submitted appeals against the recent approval of ISO/IEC Draft International Standard (DIS) 29500 - Information technology - Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard.

In accordance with the ISO/IEC rules governing the work of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, Information technology, the appeals are being considered by the ISO secretary-general and the IEC general secretary.

Within a period of 30 days (to the end of June), and following whatever consultations they judge appropriate, the secretary-general and general secretary are required to submit the appeals, with their comments, to the ISO Technical Management Board and the IEC Standardization Management Board.

The two management boards will decide whether the appeals should be further processed. If they decide in favor of proceeding, the chairmen of the two boards are required to establish a conciliation panel that will attempt to resolve the appeals. The process could take several months.

According to the ISO/IEC rules, a document that is the subject of an appeal cannot be published as an ISO/IEC International Standard while the appeal is going on.

Therefore, the decision whether to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500 as an ISO/IEC International Standard cannot be taken until the outcome of the appeals is known.

Source: International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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