[LINK] Australia abstains on Office Open XML vote

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/Sep/03, at 10:42 PM, Andy Farkas wrote:

> 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.

Not true, "unconditional no" is also an option.

> 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.

Even more reason to say no it seems to me.  As in "no, we'll get back  
to you when we've got a committee to look over it."

> 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

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