However, Finland is concerned about the general quality and immatureness of the present state of the proposed standard. There are several issues where further development would be appreciated for the proposed standard to meet the ISO standards document criteria defined in ISO/IEC Directives Part 2. The following comments were especially raised during the Finland’s ISO/IEC DIS 29500 ballot process.

All parts

ge

Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment FI-0002 (Modified: 2008-01-08) We thank Finland 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. There is no doubt that the feedback we have received during the Standardization process has improved significantly the quality of our specification. 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).