The statement reads: The goal is to enable the implementation of the Office Open XML formats by the widest set of tools and platforms, fostering interoperability across office productivity applications and line-of-business systems, as well as to support and strengthen document archival and preservation, all in a way that is fully compatible with the large existing investments in Microsoft Office documents.

The goal should not be to protect only Microsoft Documents but also other legacy documents that we have in existent e.g WordPerfect documents.

Lines 5 - 8 Part 1 Page xii

ge

Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment KE-0071 (Modified: 2008-01-04) Agreed; it may be useful for certain other document formats to be documented as open standards (as, for example, the PDF format has been documented and proposed as an ISO standard in another standardization effort), but such work is outside the scope of DIS 29500.