ISO, IEC Members Approve ISO/IEC DIS 29500 for Publication
August 22, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The two technical boards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC Draft International Standard (DIS) 29500 - Information technology - Office Open XML formats as an ISO/IEC international standard.
This occurred after appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of the document failed to garner sufficient support.
None of the appeals from Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela received the support for further processing of two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC Standardization Management Board, as required by ISO/IEC rules governing the work of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1, Information technology.
According to the ISO/IEC rules, DIS 29500 can now proceed to publication as an ISO/IEC international standard. This is expected to take place within the next few weeks on completion of final processing of the document, and subject to no further appeals against the decision.
The adoption process of office open extensible markup language (OOXML) as an ISO/IEC standard has generated debate related to both technical and procedural issues that have been addressed according to ISO and IEC procedures, the organizations said.
Source: International Organization for Standardization (ISO).