Rob, I appreciate your eagerness to clarify the public record and get the facts correct.
Can you please provide a link to whatever misrepresentation you are trying to correct?
Thanks,
Doug
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Subject: [office] The Phantom Proposals
Hi Carol and Mary (and FYI, for the ODF TC members, who all already know
this),
I'm starting to here a claim that the ODF TC rejected "15 proposals" made
by Microsoft to improve interoperability. "IBM and Sun voted them down"
is how I hear it phrased. Just in case you get any inquiries on this, I
would like to draw your attention to the TC's record, which does not
substantiate the claim.
By last November, the ODF TC had completed the technical features it had
initially set out to do for ODF 1.2: metadata, accessibility, formula and
database. We had completed our goals. But we were still tracking 50 or
so miscellaneous member proposals on our wiki, and this number was
increasing. You can see the list of proposals on the wiki here:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/List_of_Proposals
On November 24th, by decision of the TC, with no objections, we agreed to
limit the number of additional proposals we would consider for ODF 1.2.
You can see the agreement in the meeting minutes here:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200811/msg00124.html
On December 8th, again without objection, the TC agreed to have a vote on
which of the remaining member proposals would be considered for ODF 1.2.
This agreement is in the minutes here:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200812/msg00055.html
You can see that step #4 in the minutes called for members to reiterate
their proposals if they wished to have them included in the ballot.
The list of reiterated proposals is listed here:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200812/msg00089.html
Michael sent a note to make sure that this list was not lacking any
proposal. No errors in that list were reported.
We voted on the list and the results are here:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200812/msg00156.html
All eligible TC members voted.
So, although it may be cleverly stated that "None of Microsoft's
interoperability proposals were accepted" this is solely because the TC
members from Microsoft did not reiterate their proposals and in effect
withdrew them from consideration. I remember the call distinctly, where
they said they did so because they did not want to slow down ODF 1.2.
I want to make sure that the record is crystal clear in this regard, since
statements are being made, and actions attributed to members of this TC,
which are false, misleading and reflect poorly on OASIS, this TC, our work
and our decision making process. I don't think any of us want to see that
happen.
Regards,
-Rob
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