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Ultimate question: Now that three formal appeals have been filed, is the Joint Technical Committee going to take them seriously?

Well, we can start by asking "what happens if they don't?" We can look in the Directives for answers there, for instance with regard to what happens if a BRM violates the Directives governing such meetings.

Hmmm ... nothing. There is no consequence specified in the case where a TC doesn't follow the directives. The answer to "what happens if they don't?" appears to be "nothing."

However, maybe JTC1 may be in the mood come next meeting. Or not.
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Ask any lawyer  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/30/08
I've told you people  Linux Geek | 05/30/08
ISO value in trouble  wackoae | 05/30/08
Here:  Qbt | 05/30/08
Come on, the standards process failed here, and and OOXML will never be a  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
The standards process didn't fail here...  Qbt | 05/30/08
It is very rare to have two standards for the exact same thing, from the  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Really? You pretty ignorant with standards then...  transposeIT | 05/30/08
What? This is the SAME standards organization, ratifying two standards for  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
You can't be serious  Pliny the Elder | 05/30/08
Just a minute, ISO passed ODF unanamously, there was no controversy. That  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Two different ways of doing the same thing  Ole Man | 05/31/08
Why move on, OOXML is basically toast.  TripleII | 05/31/08
Why all the dirty tricks from  Pliny the Elder | 05/30/08
There is not excuse for anybody to use dirty tricks to circumvent the  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Cry you a river? You are IN the river.......  Ole Man | 05/31/08
Side Effect.  TripleII | 05/31/08
RE: Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote  Qbt | 05/30/08
not some ... agenda pushed by some ... minority  javajunkie@... | 05/30/08
OOXML did not level any playing fields. That might have been the case with  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Not OOXML  Qbt | 05/30/08
OOXML is only to create confusion and interoperability problems, nothting  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
I guess you are...  Qbt | 05/30/08
MS may think we are all very stupid, but, they did not have much reason to  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
If you had a clue..  User07734 | 05/31/08
The trouble IS NOT that people don't understand  Ole Man | 05/31/08
Idiot troll  User07734 | 05/31/08
"You people are so transparent"..... So true!  Ole Man | 05/31/08
Nice rant...  Tony Agudo | 05/30/08
And, there might be countries banning OOXML for government use even though  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Then...  Qbt | 05/30/08
ODF does not exclude MS, it is fully implementable by all, proprietary or  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
I get it.  Qbt | 05/30/08
I get what you're saying  Tony Agudo | 05/30/08
Good thing you're not in charge then...  User07734 | 05/31/08
The problem with OOXML...  TripleII | 05/31/08
While you are down the river without a paddle  Ole Man | 05/31/08
This goes to show how bad the OOXML standard is. Normally countries rejoice  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Not really. If you factor in the truth  Pliny the Elder | 05/30/08
So, good interoperability would "force MS out". If MS has the best  DonnieBoy | 05/31/08
Did the Linux zealots even read the article?  transposeIT | 05/30/08
If they were not unhappy with OOXML, they would not be complaining about  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
They aren't allowed.  TripleII | 05/31/08
These countries must have received a lot of "aid" from ODF supporters..  transposeIT | 05/30/08
So, why was there no problem with ODF? Why was ODF unanamous? Why was there  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Why?  Qbt | 05/30/08
Again, this has nothing to do with open source. Open standards and open  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
What part of "open" don't you understand  Pliny the Elder | 05/30/08
Yes, MS was trying in round about, indirect ways to imply that ODF was  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Out of curiousity...  Tony Agudo | 05/30/08
I guess you're new to this topic...  User07734 | 05/31/08
Brazil and India, no. SA, maybe.  TripleII | 05/31/08
It is a real shame that one company has destroyed all respect for ISO...  Basic Logic | 05/30/08
Well, we can hope that they will redo the rules so that one company can not  DonnieBoy | 05/30/08
Amen!  Ole Man | 05/31/08
And I'll protest their high piracy rates.  HypnoToad | 05/31/08

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