[LINK] Australia abstains on Office Open XML vote

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 20:43:29 AEST 2007


> an abstention is the next best thing to a "yes,"


<http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php? 
story=20070831151800414>

> From this, it becomes clear that P votes are far more important  
> than O votes, and therefore why the recent upsurge in P members –  
> from 30 to 41 this year – is so significant. We will see what the  
> actual votes will be next week, but my expectation at this point is  
> that the votes cast by those that were P members on January 1 of  
> 2007 will be heavily negative, and that OOXML would have failed  
> decisively absent the recent upgrades.
>
> From the above, you can also see that an abstention is the next  
> best thing to a "yes," since it helps make the 50% test, and also  
> avoids another vote in the no category, which can't exceed 25% of  
> all votes cast. As a result, a conversion of the Swedish vote from  
> a "yes" to an abstention, due to irregularities, is still helpful  
> to the OOXML cause. That's because if the vote would have been "no"  
> without the sudden increase in membership (and it appears that it  
> would have been), the increase still succeeded in taking a no vote  
> off the list – a tactical victory.



On 2007/Sep/03, at 11:21 AM, Andy Farkas wrote:

> <http://www.standards.org.au/downloads/ 
> 070903_SA_decision_on_OOXML.pdf>
>
> "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."
>
> -andyf
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