Ah,the relief. I can miss the silly season this year. I can turn off the TV, turn off the talk radio, turn the newspaper straight to the sports page, and altogether ignore the last month of the campaign.Why? Because I'm attending the … [Continue reading] about ODF @ OOoCon 2008
Where’s Rob?
Alex Brown is saddened that I did not attend the JTC1/SC34 Plenary in Korea last week. You can view his photo essay and lament on my absence here.[A] question being asked along the committee corridors by perplexed NB members is whether IBM has … [Continue reading] about Where’s Rob?
Introducing the ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC
A short tale, all true, to relate. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Years ago, but not so very long ago, when XML still had that new car smell, two companies, let's call them Red and Blue, decided to make a new XML-based … [Continue reading] about Introducing the ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC
ODF: Translations and Errata
Although the ODF 1.0 standard was approved several years ago (by OASIS in 2005 and by ISO/IEC in 2006), work on the standard does not cease. Of course, we have work on technical revisions of ODF, in the form of ODF 1.1 and the current work on ODF … [Continue reading] about ODF: Translations and Errata
Giving the Finger to the DIS 29500 Appellants
The news broke on Friday, with the ISO press release, and additional coverage and analysis by Andy Updegrove and on Groklaw. But it would be remiss if I did not share a few details on how, true to form, the end of this DIS 29500 process was … [Continue reading] about Giving the Finger to the DIS 29500 Appellants