Summary:
OOXML should reference, use, and conform to existing standards where applicable.
Justification:
It has been claimed that the current standard conflicts with other ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the representation of names of languages) and ISO/IEC 10118-3 (Hash functions). If this is the case, the specification should be brought into line with these and other existing standards. The problem is especially apparent in the case of the ‘date1904′ attribute. The ambiguity regarding the status of the year 1900 should be resolved by using ISO standard dates everywhere.
Ensure that 29500 does not conflict with the above-mentioned standards and use only ISO standard date formats, not ambiguous numeric dates.
[Part 4] 2.18.15, 2.3.2.18, 3.2.27, 3.17.4.1, etc.
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment NO-0011 (Modified: 2008-01-06) We agree that standards can benefit from appropriate use of other existing standards, and DIS 29500 includes normative references to many standards that have been ratified by ISO/IEC, IETF, W3C, and other standards organizations. The following standards are normatively referenced by DIS 29500: Character Sets from IANA. ISO/IEC 2382.1:1993, Information technology — Vocabulary — Part 1: Fundamental terms. ISO 8601:2004, Information interchange — Representation of dates and times ISO/IEC 10646:2003 (all parts), Information technology — Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS). ISO/IEC 14496-22:2007, Information technology Coding of audio-visual objects Part 22: Open Font Format. RFC 2119, Bradner, Scott, 1997: “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”. RFC 2045, Borenstein, N., and N. Freed. “Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.” The Internet Society. 1996. RFC 2616, Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, J. Gettys, P. Leach, L. Masinter, and J. Mogul. “Hypertext Transfer Protocol–HTTP/1.1.” The Internet Society. 1999. RFC 3066, Alvestrand, H. “Tags for the Identification of Languages.” The Internet Society. 2001. RFC 3339, Klyne, G. and C. Newman “Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps.” The Internet Society. 2002. RFC 3629, Yergeau, F. “UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.” The Internet Society. 2003. RFC 3986, Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, and L. Masinter. “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax.” The Internet Society. 2005. The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0, defined by: The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 (Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-48091-0). XSLT, Clark, James, "XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0," World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation. 1999. XML, Tim Bray, Eve Maler, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, John Cowan, and François Yergeau (editors). “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1,” Third Edition. World Wide Web Consortium. XML Base, Marsh, Jonathan. “XML Base.” World Wide Web Consortium. 2001. XML Namespaces, Bray, Tim, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman, and Richard Tobin (editors). “Namespaces in XML 1.1.” World Wide Web Consortium. 2004. XML Path Language Specification, Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999 XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004. XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004. XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition, W3C Recommendation 28 October 2004. .ZIP File Format Specification from PKWARE, Inc. Similar Comments: BG-0001 , CH-0014 , IN-0019 , KR-0018 , TN-0002
