The DIS standard be considered by JTC 1 committee for publication as a Type 2 Technical report.
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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment NZ-0001 (Modified: 2008-01-09) According to the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Directives, ยง16.2.2, “Type 2 Technical Report”, “When the subject in question is still under technical development or where for any other reason there is the possibility of an agreement at some time in the future, JTC 1 may decide that the publication of a TR would be more appropriate.” We disagree that the specification for Office Open XML is still under technical development. Office Open XML, i.e. Ecma-376, is a standard, which has been developed and approved in Ecma under an open, thorough and rigorous standard process. This process was fully documented in the status reports that Ecma made public on www.ecma-international.org since the inception of the project, i.e. December 2005. The standard is complete, and is presented for fast-track as an International Standard, not as a Technical Report. Our view is supported by the fact that there are a growing number of implementations of ECMA-376 (DIS 29500) 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, and Windows Mobile). Any standard can be improved. In response to the comments we received from National Bodies, we have made many corrections, clarifications and improvements to the specification. We hope that DIS 29500 will be adopted as an ISO/IEC International Standard for the benefit of the IT community worldwide.
