● 03.03.08

●● Bob Sutor on the BRM: “Utter and Predictable Embarrassment”; Red Hat Also Chimes In

Posted in ECMA, Europe, IBM, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, Red Hat at 11:29 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

As a new week begins and discussion resumes, we begin to see reactions. IBM’s has Sutor posted a long response and here is a gist of the problems he highlights.

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Of all the “condensed” resolutions from ECMA, approximately 82% were not discussed at all, including counter proposals for these same issues. That leaves about 18% that were either discussed and voted on or else voted on early in batch. (I’m fine with batch votes for minor typographical fixes.)

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What an utter and predictable embarrassment.

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Red Hat, which is affected a great deal by what’s at stake, has responded as well.

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The first pitch was thrown in Geneva last week at the ISO ballot resolution meetings on OOXML. And we can safely say: strike one! There was no renouncement of the OOXML standard by Microsoft. Instead, every indication was business as usual.

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I, for one, would welcome some sunshine on the process and urge that ISO make the reported audio recordings of the Geneva meetings publicly available.

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It remains to be seen if ISO will spill the beans and reveal what actually happened there in the secretive meeting [1, 2].

It was a mess and a shame. ISO could use some toppling. Alex Brown’s response to Andy Updegrove already attracts some curious reactions. As pointed out the other day, Brown is being defensive. █

Back in the trash canwhere it belongs

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