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> For readers interested in some of the raw (ballot) data, and
> additional commentary:
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> http://xml.coverpages.org/NIST-ConditionalApprovalVote.html#notes
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And for those who haven't understood the context, as I didn't at first, this
is all an internal debate about how the US intends to cast its vote at ISO.
Many of the headlines (for example "Microsoft one vote short of fast-track
OOXML ISO standardization") fail to make this clear.
I haven't seen any evidence that the US decision will influence the many
other national standards bodies who will also be voting. Since the whole
point about the fast-track process is that it's only supposed to be used
when things are uncontroversial, I would have thought many countries will
vote no purely on that basis.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
