A huge amount of information has passed through my inbox since the DIS29500 Ballot Resolution Meeting, most of it constructive and some of it just a predictable last ditch attempt to inappropriately discredit a very successful meeting.  Originating from the Asia Pacific region, I’m seeing emails being sent to certain countries in Asia that ...

So we’re a few days past the end of the BRM, as I suggested in my last post we’re starting to see an increasingly solid picture emerge of the success of the meeting and high levels of positive progress made during the five days in Geneva. Of course folks who have been working against OpenXML over [...]

Well, the Ballot Resolution Meeting for ISO/IEC DIS29500 (OpenXML) is now over and done with. Working out what happened in the room itself is a complex task while we still wait for an official release from ISO/IEC, I’m sure we will see something from then over the next few days. I’ve seen a couple of posts this [...]

Things are getting more exciting as we get closer to the Ballot Resolution Meeting for DIS29500 (OpenXML) in Geneva. I thought it might be useful to look at a few of the terms that have become part of the generic standards lexicon during this process and see if I can define them a little for the [...]

It has been a busy week on the OpenXML front, I have been travelling for the last few days and have just spent the last 30 minutes trying to catch up on the long list in my inbox. Three of the items stand out; 1. Accessibility. A group of accessibility experts have worked on reviewing Ecma-376 [...]

As we get closer to the BRM for DIS29500 in Geneva the team that form Ecma TC45 continue to work hard on building out their list of proposed dispositions to the comments that each of the national bodies put forwards last September. On 7th January an additional 950 or so dispositions were posted to the TC45 [...]

As we get closer to the BRM for DIS29500 in Geneva the team that form Ecma TC45 continue to work hard on building out their list of proposed dispositions to the comments that each of the national bodies put forwards last September. On 7th January an additional 950 or so dispositions were posted to the TC45 [...]

A number of sites are reporting that a further set of proposed dispositions have been posted to the Ecma web site for review by the national standards bodies and various technical committees. Brian Jones, Microsoft’s representative on TC45 within Ecma, mentions on his blog that the committee has now looked at over half of the submitted [...]

I have a couple of links for you this morning on the progress of the comment resolution process, as we head towards the DIS29500 Ballot Resolution Meeting at the end of February. The first is to the web site of Ecma International who currently lead the work on the DIS29500 specification, Rex Jaeschke is the JTC1 [...]