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Doesn't Brown's "no ISO/IEC:26300 Support" Criticism Stand?
Talkback When I save a document in OOo, Lotus Symphony, or KOffice, I see no option to save the document as ISO/IEC:26300. I have only a single option per filetype. The problem here is that the international standard is N but none of the full-featured tools...
[May 3, 2008, 4:16]
Bottom Line: No Featureful Implementations Of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument
Talkback But the fact remains that there are no full-featured editors that write to ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument. Numerous governments have adopted ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument as their national standards and procurement specifications and Microsoft has...
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
Using Information Shield Publications For ISO/IEC 27001 Certification
White Papers Organizations seeking certification against ISO 27001 can save considerable time and effort using pre-written information security policies from Information Shield. ISPME Version 10 provides complete policy coverage for the eleven information...
[April 22, 2008, 0:00]
ODF Is ISO/IEC 26300:2006
Talkback Here is the link: http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm? csnumber=43485 It was ratified as a standard on May 2nd 2006: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8184331228.html
[April 17, 2008, 11:44]
Achieving Policy, Regulatory And Standards Compliance Through Implementing An ISO/IEC 27000 Series: Information Security Management System
White Papers This paper has been prepared to provide those organizations wishing to demonstrate their compliance with various policy, legal, regulatory and other chosen standards with an understanding of how that may be accomplished through the implementation...
[April 22, 2008, 0:00]
Applying ISO/IEC 9126-1 Quality Model To Quality Requirements Engineering On Critical Software
White Papers In order to develop a software product for a critical system, specifying quality requirements is vitally important. Quality requirements should be defined based on various stakeholders' needs. Software quality impacts the information system's...
[April 12, 2008, 0:00]
ODF, The Big Picture
Talkback I don't think many in this discussion were cheering the virtues of OOXML as an ISO/IEC standard. As Gary again pointed out “Microsoft is grateful that once an unlimited undocumented eXtension loaded ODF opened the door at ISO/IEC, no one would...
[March 3, 2008, 7:44]
OOXML Debacle - Time To Take Away ECMA's Toys?
Blog Comment Judge, OOXML is neither a "debacle" nor is the ISO/IEC Fast Track procedure Ecma's "toy". Regarding Ecma's history and its A-Liaison status with ISO/IEC JTC 1 please read Mr. The advantage on the ISO/IEC side is getting with a speed a standard that...
[March 5, 2008, 13:30]
Technology Leadership - John Siemon On Category 6/Class E Cabling
White Papers The starting point for category 6 dates back to the Munich meeting of International Standards Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC25/WG 3 in September of 1997. At this meeting, there was agreement to include two new performance classes for balanced cabling...
[October 14, 2003, 0:00]
When Is The ISO Version The Wrong Version, We Know ISO Is Not Supported
Talkback If OpenOffice people state that the version used by the Alex Brwon is the wrong version and he used the ISO/IEC 26300 version then obviously OpenOffice is not producing valid ISO/IEC standard files. It is strange people now critisise the same...
[May 2, 2008, 22:28]
Micrsoft Committed To ISO Version Of OOXML
Talkback Microsoft has already in an open letter committed to supporting the upcoming ISO/IEC version (which is likely to be 1-1 with the next Ecma version soonish as well). ISO/IEC jct1 sc34 is actually very unhappy with the independant maintenace of OASIS...
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
ODF 1.1 Is Indeed An International Standard
Talkback An "international standard" is defined, in ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004, definition 3.2.1.1, as "[A] standard that is adopted by an international standardizing/standards organization and made available to the public.
[May 3, 2008, 14:55]
Introduction To The Standard C++ Library For HP NonStop Systems
White Papers With Release Version Update G06.20 of the HP NonStop Kernel operating system, HP is introducing the International Standards Organization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard C++ Library and language for HP NonStop systems...
[March 5, 2004, 23:00]
Cut To The Chase
Talkback Vendor consortia seek to mask their application-platform-vendor specific proposals with the ISO/IEC cloak of interoperability. The trick for vendor consortia is getting their Ecma-OASIS ZERO interop proposals through ISO/IEC, where interoperability...
[March 3, 2008, 18:57]
ISO Endorses OpenDocument Standard
News Members of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ratified the file format standard with no opposition among the 31 votes. With adoption of ODF by ISO/IEC now assured...
[May 4, 2006, 13:30]
ISO Rejects Microsoft OOXML
News National standards bodies from 104 countries have been casting votes over the past five months to decide whether OOXML should receive ISO certification, including standards bodies from 41 countries that participate in ISO/IEC Joint Technical...
[September 5, 2007, 13:32]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
News Last Tuesday, members of the ISO and the IEC ratified the file format. Microsoft.has introduced its Office Open XML specifications into an ECMA standardisation process, also headed for consideration by ISO/IEC," he said.
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," said Brown in a blog post recounting the process of testing a document against the "strict" and "transitional" schema defined in the standard.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
Critics Brand OOXML A Microsoft 'marketing Tool'
News My biggest complaint about the thing wasn't that [ISO/IEC] 29500 shouldn't have been a standard, but that it was a lousy piece of writing," Mason continued. However, now that Microsoft OOXML has been ratified as an international standard — ISO/IEC...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
ISO May Change Its Processes Following OOXML Debacle
Blog The issue of revising the fast-track procedure, or any other ISO or IEC procedure, is an ongoing process, and the experience with ISO/IEC 29500, along with the results of other standards-development activities, will indeed assist to determine...
[April 18, 2008, 17:44]
