(O)OXML and ISO voting processes
Many have recently complained about ISO's voting processes, mainly how they need to be revised as currently it seems it's possible to buy yourself a standard given enough lobbyist and money.
But part of this is ISO's trust in ECMA. ISO allows ECMA to submit standards for the fast-track process because it trusts it to approve good standards. If OXML (as it seems to be called now it's approved, formerly OOXML) was indeed such a bad standard (which I don't doubt personally) then ISO should maybe review it's relationship with ECMA too?
This is only a tiny part of the picture obviously, but one I haven't seem mentioned elsewhere.


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ooxml just made it obvious to everybody:
- You can buy any standard given enough money, lobbies, corruption and greed
- ecma is obsolete and corrupt
- iso is obsolete and corrupt
Given that iso/ecma are demonstratably dead now, it's about time to create *real* standard bodies, isn't it?
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