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Congratulations ODF, OSI Draft International Standard 26300

Bob Sutor: An ODF Thanks.  As of May 3, 2006, The OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) has achieved stage 40.60 in the meticulous ISO procedure for establishment of international standards under the ISO imprimatur.  This is heralded as a major milestone in the establishment of formal standards for open interchange of office documents.  ODF joins the historical development of Open Document Architecture (ODA), Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and other initiatives designed to foster interchange and interoperability with data and text in electronic form.

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History shows us that achieving a standard specification is not the same as achieving a standard.  Nevertheless, this is an important way-point on the journey toward the open-documents world that is the promise for ODF and related initiatives.  There are many further milestones yet to arrive.  Further steps can now launch off of the foundation established with this strong level of international recognition.

For all of that, congratulations ODF.

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The current specification is registered as ISO/IEC Draft International Standard (DIS) 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0.   This stage is the result of the acceptance of the OASIS submission by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 34 (Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 34: Document Description and Processing Languages), shepherded under WG1 (Working Group 1: Markup Languages).  This is one of ten specifications wending their way through WG1 and 22 through SC34, including work on topic maps, font information, and Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL). You can purchase and download the just-balloted 2005-10-19 document.  However, apart from some interesting cover materials on the fast-track Publicly Available Specification Procedure that applies to this submission, the content material is literally the May 1, 2005 OASIS specification which can be downloaded without purchase.  The OASIS submission to OSI is attached to the end, and the schemas are also included in the OSI package. 

There has been no technical work on the specification and, unless there have been comments that must be resolved, it seems that there could be no difference in substance whatsoever between the OASIS ODF 1.0 specification and its OSI-ratified form. So far this is not a technical-committee process, in contrast with the original OASIS work and the work of ECMA TC45 on Office Open XML Document Interchange.

posted by orcmid at 5/06/2006 03:24:34 PM