IBM's new “IT Standards Policy” reads like a catalogue of what went wrong with OOXML at the ISO. This means the questions already raised by many about the ISO's role in today's world of increasingly open technical standards have assumed a new urgency; the longer they go unanswered, the sooner an alternative forum is likely to be found.
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