Poland confirms its approval for OOXML in ISO
[ Friday, 28 March 2008, michuk ]
In the just released press message of PKN (Polish Standarization Institute), we read that the vote of Poland in ISO will be to recommend approving Office Open XML as an ISO standard.
The chairman of KT 182 (technical commmittee responsible for OOXML standarization), Elżbieta Andrukiewicz, decided on March 20th that the e-mail voting will take place in order to come up with the final decision. Here is how the votes look like:
- 24 members voted to approve (7 of them without even knowing that, since no vote was counted as a vote to approve),
- 13 members voted against approving the standard (a ‘NO’ vote),
- 4 remaining members decided that Poland should abstain from voting.
Thus, the final decision of Poland is “YES, without comments”, which is no change comparing to the vote from September 2007.
More about the Polish mess around KT 182 and OOXML can be found in the previous posts:
This was a long fight and we lost it. Thanks for your support everyone. I would like to sincerely apologize for PKN, Mrs Elżbieta and all the folks who helped make this happen. I’m very sorry. Good bye.
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Well, Michuk, this is bad news indeed for the free world, I really believe this.
But I sincerely hope that this is not the last of the issue.
Maybe this decision can and will be appealed if at all possible, due to the impropoper way at which it was arrived.
Worse thing has actually happened - ISO has recognised the OOXML standard today. Here’s the full article:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080402/ttc-us-regulate-it-computer-software-com-e0bba4a.html
I wonder how much that was…
Do they have any justification for adopting OOXML? I read M$ had decided to quit buying votes when they realized how bad it was? So is Poland voting this way for some obscure political reason. Or is there really a reason for all those Pollock jokes we used to memorize when we were kids!
This is very sad news indeed
I’m no expert but according to the corespondency between Mrs. Andrukiewicz (the chairman of KT 182) and Mr. Schweitzer (the president of PKN) the decision should be made by consensus. It means there should be no solid opposition to the decision.
Even if you only take the “No” votes, more than 30% of members are opposing. If 30% is not a “solid opposition” then I don’t know what is!
There’s something really wrong about all of this. I can only hope that in the future this parody of standarization (and I don’t only mean Poland) will be precisely investigated and proper decisions will be made.
(7 of them without even knowing that, since no vote was counted as a vote to approve)
Are you kidding?
If this is true, you will do nothing? Please APPEAL, SUE !!! this can’t be the base-level of standardization; this has to be fixed !
@carlos: The problem is that this rule is part of the PKN regulations. Sure the rules were not created with these kinds of manipulations in mind, they were created with ethical committee members. Unfortunately not too much can be done now, unless the committee members prove that Andrukiewicz deliberately manipulated the process. AFAIK they will try to do it.