“Standards Malaysia has now issued a statement regarding the
BRM. The title says it all, ‘Malaysian delegation at the ISO
meeting in Geneva (25 – 29 Feb ’08) finds the technical
issues in the draft standard OOXML unresolved satisfactorily.’“They were there. And they contradict the stories being put out
by those in charge and by Microsoft. They did *not* have the
opportunity to have their concerns addressed totally. Malaysia
voted to disapprove the undiscussed bulk dispositions, although
they had earlier voted to approve some dispositions that were
discussed…”