The document should be revised in order to clarify some technical questioning about dates, capture of historical documents, use of patents, limitations for other use of softwares, etc.
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment EC-0001 (Modified: 2008-01-08) We thank Ecuador for its participation in the DIS 29500 Standardization process. In response to the comments we received from National Bodies, we have made many corrections, clarifications and improvements to the specification. One important area addressed was the handling of dates. Specifically, we 1. Added support for dates prior to 1900. 2. Addressed the issue of 1900 being treated as a leap year. 3. Provided support for ISO 8601, the ISO Standard for dates. 4. Provided detailed information and normative references for numerous calendar-related comments. For detailed information about IPR in DIS 29500, please refer to the proposed disposition of comments AU-0002, BG-0002, CH-0004, CH-0019, GR-0001, GR-0015, IN-0006, IN-0070, IR-0057, KE-0074, KE-0075, NZ-0010, NZ-0054, PT-0001, PT-0003, PT-0004, US-0003 and ZA-0008. We note that a growing number of implementations of ECMA-376 are becoming available, including those released by Apple (Mac OS X Leopard, iWork 08, iPhone), Adobe (InDesign), Microsoft (Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, Office 2008 Mac OS X), Novell (Suse Open Office) , Google (Search / Preview), Mindjet (MindManager), Intergen, OpenXML/ODF Translator (Open Source project on Sourceforge), Dataviz (DocumentsToGo on Palm OS, MacLinkPlus on Mac OS X Leopard), NeoOffice, Altova (XMLSpy), MarkLogic (XML Content Server), Datawatch (Monarch Pro), QuickOffice (QuickOffice Premier 5.0 on Symbian), Altsoft (XML2PDF Server 2007) and those under development by Corel (WordPerfect), AbiWord, Gnome (GNumeric), Xandros, Linspire, Turbolinux and others. These implementations are now available on many platforms, including Linux, the Macintosh, Windows, and handheld devices (PalmOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile).
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