The following individual technical comments illustrate reasons why a student assessment may not be treated fairly and equitably as a result of a failure to address technical errors in ISO/IEC DIS 29500. While there are many possible examples that could be used, consider a student submitting a Spreadsheet for an assessable task that relies on various ISO/IEC DIS 29500 formula functions noted below. Unless they are corrected by ISO, these errors (or unspecified elements) could lead to inequity in student assessment.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment AU-0024 (Modified: 2008-01-09) We agree that the formulas subclause of the SpreadsheetML clause is very important, and we have done our best to ensure that it is both accurate and complete. Specific inaccuracies that have been found and raised–such as those listed at the provided URL, http://www.xmlopen.org/ooxml- wiki/index.php/3._SpreadsheetML_Reference_Material –are being addressed.