"Last night someone sent me a copy of a document delivered by
the CEOs of ISO and IEC earlier that day to the ISO Technical
Management Board (TMB). That documents summarizes the four appeals
filed in relation to the adoption of DIS 29500 (OOXML), and
provides a response to each claimed basis for appeal. Those
appeals, you will recall, were registered by the National Bodies of
South Africa, India, Venezuela and Brazil, not all of which have
became publicly available. Under the Directives, the next step in
the Appeals process is for the TMB to vote on each appeal, with
each member being entitled to vote yes, no or abstain on one or the
other of the following resolutions, in each case as to each appeal
separately:
"Not to process the appeal further
"To process one or more of the appeals, which would require
setting up of a conciliation panel..."
