Starting from today, there is a new standardization organization doing its work in this world. It is known under the name OpenISO, and is an organization created by Norbert Bollow (who also created thankpoland.info).
OpenISO is an organization which set out to create truly open standards, not based on a reasonable and not discriminatory (RAND) basis. OpenISO wants all information required to implement its standards to be free, so everyone can freely develop competing poducts that implement its standards.
So far, OpenISO has released a number of standards in the network area (such as the telnet protocol), and is now aiming at ECMA 376 in a Call for Participation.
More on FFII's involvement in OOXML
- ECMA comments published (January 18th, 2008)
- OpenISO website launched (December 6th, 2007)
- Comment Resolution Meeting (August 2nd, 2007)
- An obstacle to accessibility? (November 30th, 2007)
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