Sauce for the goose
Talkback 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...
[October 7, 2008, 11:48]
The point is that OOXML should not have been Fast Tracked.
Talkback PAS and Fast Track have more or less the same objectives: having an existing standard "co-opted" by ISO. If the system is not abused, Fast Track has basically the same result as PAS: a text extensively reviewed by a standard organisation, stable...
[October 7, 2008, 17:59]
Ecma: So why is our process suddenly broken?
Blog The "PAS" process by which Ecma submits standards to ISO for fast-track approval has been working well since 1961, he says in an email. So in that spirit lessons learned, changes, modifications on the ISO/IEC Fast Track and PAS process can of...
[September 25, 2008, 14:03]
US votes 'no' on Sun's ISO Java bid
News The process stated in March of last year, when Sun responded to a request from ISO that it work through the PAS process to get Java into the standards world. This gave Sun the opportunity to respond to questions and to repost its PAS submission.
[October 29, 1997, 9:22]
Java standards glitch may open door for Microsoft
News However, Sun abruptly set aside its PAS plans last spring after discovering that its PAS status would expire this month. Shortly after, ECMA agreed to take up Sun's Java standards work and submit Java to ISO on a fast track for Sun.
[November 22, 1999, 10:51]
So ODF actually SHOULD be rubber stamped?
Talkback PAS specifications are created and completed outside, and can be rubber stamped by ISO, but Fast Track specifications expect ISO to complete the specification, so they should not be rubber stamps. That's a good point, Luc, that I will be taking up...
[October 7, 2008, 16:21]
Standardization by Corporation
Talkback Closing down the Ecma fast track and OASIS PAS channels will go along way towards limiting the undue influence corporate vendors now have on determining international standards. That ISO credibility teeters on the brink of corporate vendor takeover...
[March 5, 2008, 22:56]
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
Talkback Ne C'est Pas! If MS's Office is so great than the output of an open document standard would not be a problem .
[May 4, 2006, 23:48]
