<incom> OOXML and the Politics of Standardization

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Soenke

I had a similar thought.

What I found most disturbing about this OOXML vote is 
how it 'sneaked' up on most people.  

In fact... the politics of standardisation, and ensuring open 
standards is more fundamental to A2K, and easier to 
defend, than open source.

Anriette

> Now that ISO is now being drawn into a politics-of-standardization
> debate, not unlike WIPO (which until very recently no-one outside
> expertist circles knew much about) and the controversy regarding a
> possible 'development mandate' etc., I wonder if this is sth that
> could also be addressed in the context of the Access-to-Knowledge
> campaign; I am not sure to what extent that A2K is still alive (the
> list is, but is the campaign?), or whether it even addresses the role
> played by standardization bodies.
> 
> As far as lists go, the one started by Norbert Bollow seems to 
> coordinate some of the activities between now and the Feb 2008 ISO
> meeting,
> 
> <http://openiso.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss>
> 
> Soenke
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