Ken North wrote:
> Seven years ago the mindset of many in this community was that ISO standards are
> unnecessary and irrelevant. Apparently that is no longer the case.
>
The key difference is that XML was already a W3C standard. OOXML is not
yet more than a spec, and I tend to think should not be more than a
spec. Were it being pushed through the W3C instead of the ISO, I think
the issues would be much the same.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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