[LINK] format for comments

[Tom Worthington]

At 12:34 PM 14/08/2007, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>... From memory, "the comment form" was a word document....has that changed?

The comment template for the proposed ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML 
standard was distributed by Standards Australia as a 34 kbyte 
Microsoft RTF file. If converted to the ISO ODF format, it reduces to 
11 kbytes.

The draft standard itself is available from the Standards Australia 
web site, but be warned it is a 46 Mbyte Zip file: 
<https://committees.standards.org.au/COMMITTEES/I-000/T0009/I-000-T0009.ZIP>.

The text of the standard is 5,220 pages of PDF; about seven times the 
size of the ODF standard. If ISO change in proportion, an official 
copy of the OOXML standard will cost $US2,000. ;-)

I couldn't find Standards Australia's request for comment on the SA 
web site, so have blogged it, with the text of the comment form, at: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/08/how-to-submit-comments-on-ooxml-isoiec.html>.



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