[LINK] Noes from OOXML standards forum

[Glen Turner]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 Janet Hawtin wrote:

> I also hardly recognised the meeting.
> Perhaps those are 'standard minutes'

Hi Janet,

The minutes reflect what the author intended -- that Standards Australia
consulted with "the community" and all views were aired and considered
by Standards Australia.

What they don't record is the actual argument. This leads me to suspect
that evaluating the arguments is of no interest to Standards Australia.

That is of concern because it is the severity of the comments which
should determine "approve" (with editorial comments fixing typos and
ambiguities) or "disapprove" (with substantive comments that if
successfully addressed in the Ballot Resolution Meeting lead to
an "approve" vote).

My belief is that Standards Australia has already determined to vote
"approve, with comments" -- effectively "publish as is, ignore the
comments".

Standards Australia is not an arm of government, so there is no
mechanism such as a Freedom of Information request which can prove
or disprove my belief.

Cheers, Glen