[A2k] ISO Press Release: Ballot resolution meeting on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

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ISO PRESS RELEASE

Ballot resolution meeting on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard
National delegations from 37 countries will be participating in a
ballot resolution meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on 25-29 February
2008 on the draft international standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500,
Information technology =96 Office Open XML file formats.

ISO/IEC DIS 29500 is a proposed standard for word-processing
documents, presentations and spreadsheets that is intended to be
implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. According
to the submitters of the document, one of its objectives is to ensure
the long-term preservation of documents created over the last two
decades using programmes that are becoming incompatible with
continuing advances in the field of information technology.

The objective of the ballot resolution meeting (BRM) will be to review
and seek consensus on possible modifications to the document in light
of the comments received along with votes cast during a five-month
ballot on the draft which ended on 2 September 2007.

READ MORE: http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=3DRef1114



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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


Tel: +41 22 791 6727
Mobile: +41 76 508 0997