According a a blog post be Steve Pepper, the former chairman of the Norway standards commitee responsible for evaluating OOXML, South Africa’s national standards body, SABS, has appealed over the OOXML ballot at ISO.
“The South African national standards body, SABS, has appealed against the result of the OOXML DIS 29500 ballot in ISO. In a letter sent to the General Secretary of the IEC (co-sponsor with ISO of JTC1), the SABS expresses its “deep concern over the increasing tendency of international organizations to use the JTC 1 process to circumvent the consensus-building process that is the cornerstone to the success and international acceptance of ISO and IEC standards.”"
Steve Pepper also expressed some concern over whether the evaluation of the appeal will be impartial. Read more on Steve Pepper’s blog.
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