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Story: ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance

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Sauce for the goose

"Sauce for the goose isn't sauce for the gander, at least at IBM."

The same can be said for ISO, as the "sauce" used at ISO for ratifying ODF was the PAS ("Publicly Available Standards") path, while OOXML used the Fast Track path.

And indeed, PAS and Fast Track provisions for maintenance of the resulting standard are not the same...

"Brown noted [...] it turns out the rubber-stamp accusation is more justly levelled at ODF."

In the case of ODF, it is not an accusation, it is a fact: the purpose of the PAS procedure is precisely to rubber-stamp Publicly Available Standards already reviewed by another standard body, without extensively rewriting them, as it was needed for OOXML.

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