Summary: The Scope clause in Part 1 is inappropriate for an ISO standard. Justification: The Scope clause is self-referential, does not convey any useful information, and does not conform to JTC1 and ISO Directives for the scope of a standard or NP (ref. JTC1 Directives, 6.2.1.6; ISO Directives, Part 2, 6.2.1 Scope). In the absence of an appropriate Scope clause it is not possible to resolve a number of issues arising from the current text.

The Scope clause should be rewritten to give a succinct overview of the contents of the standard without self-reference, for example: "This International Standard specifies a set of XML vocabularies for representing legacy documents produced by MS Office applications. It covers word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics documents produced by the following versions of MS Office applications: [list supported versions] It does not cover documents produced by other office applications." The exact form of the Scope clause will depend on what decisions are taken regarding the final structure of the standard (e.g. as a multi-part standard).

[Part 1] 1 and other parts.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment NO-0001 (Modified: 2008-01-08) Agreed; in the response to AU-0005, CL-0039, CZ-0002, DE-0120, DK-0059, DK-0060, DK-0061, DK-0062, DK-0063, ECMA-0037, FI-0003, IN-0052, IN-0054, JP-0039, JP-0079, KE-0003, NO-0002, NO-0007, PT-0008, PT-0033, US-0021, US-0253 and ZA-0006, we have proposed restructuring DIS 29500 as a multi-part standard, which will result in a new scope clause for each part. In addition, we propose changing the scope clause in Part 1 to read as follows: This International Standard defines a set of XML vocabularies for representing word-processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The goal of this standard is to be capable of faithfully representing the pre-existing corpus of word-processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations that had been produced by the Microsoft Office applications at the date of the creation of this standard. It also specifies requirements for consumers and producers of Office Open XML. Similar Comments: US-0046