[LINK] Australia abstains on Office Open XML vote

[Andy Farkas]

On 9/3/07, Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at gmail.com> wrote:

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

In order to vote "no", they actually had to vote "no, with comments" -
comments that say what needs to be changed in order to make it
acceptable. They couldn't do that because they couldn't get a
technical committee together to pour over the 6000 pages and make it
right in such a short time.

SA will still be able to vote at the BRM.

The FFII's Spanish OpenXML.info site has a new map showing the voting
results across the globe:

http://www.ffii.org/~abarrio/openxml.info/isodis29500-votes-map-20070903a-med.jpg

-andyf