Summary: Option sets should be extensible and should avoid cultural bias. Justification: Options to features such as border styles, enumeration styles, list styles, the function NETWORKDAYS(), Clipboard Format Type, etc. should not exhibit cultural bias or be unduly restrictive, since this will inhibit adoption internationally.

All such features should be made extensible wherever possible and defined options should be specified in full in order to enable uniform implementation.

[Part 4] 2.18.4, 2.18.66, 3.17.7.224, 6.4.3.1, etc.

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment NO-0010 (Modified: 2008-01-09) We agree that extensibility and lack of cultural bias are important concepts in international standards. In support of these goals, we have proposed adding many extensibility options in the responses to other comments, including: New extensibility options for page borders, as described in the response to AU-0021, CA-0028, CL-0127, CZ-0030 and DE-0095, among others. New extensibility options for numbering formats, as described in the response to BR-0033, CL-0136, CO-0132 and DE-0080, among others. New extensibility options for the NETWORKDAYS function (in a new NETWORKDAYS.INTL function), as described in the response to DK-0138, FR-0521, IL-0022, and IN-0023. Regarding clipboard formats, there was a mistake in the inclusion of this element, and we have corrected this as explained in the proposed resolution to CO-0227, GB-0491, and IN-0008, among others. Similar Comments: MX-0002 ,