Techtree News Staff, Jun 12, 2008 1245 hrs IST
The halt in the decision comes after the over a month after four countries, including India, appealed against Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format been declared as the international standard.
Over a month after four countries, including India, appealed against Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format been declared as the international standard, the International Standardization Organization (ISO) has now put its global standardization decision on hold for several months.
In April, ISO and the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) approved OOXML file format as an international standard and gave participating countries two months time to appeal against the decision. Therefore, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Venezuela appealed against the decision complaining about the fast track process, which did not give them enough time to discuss improvements in the format. Further, they claim that it is not fully compatible with other document formats.
Open XML is a platform-independent open standard for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets to help ensure that older files are readable, even if the program used to create them has changed significantly.
According to ISO, the appeals are currently being considered by the ISO secretary-general and the IEC general secretary who, within a period of 30 days (to the end of June), and following whatever consultations they judge appropriate, are required to submit the appeals, with their comments, to the ISO Technical Management Board and the IEC Standardisation Management Board.
The two management boards will then decide whether the appeals should be further processed or not. If they decide in flavor of proceeding, the chairmen of the two boards are required to establish a conciliation panel, which will attempt to resolve the appeals. The process could take several months, reads an ISO statement.
So the crux of the matter now is that the 30 days deadline has been extended to several months as the appeals are being investigated.
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