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I have a couple of links for you this morning on the progress of the comment resolution process, as we head towards the DIS29500 Ballot Resolution Meeting at the end of February.

The first is to the web site of Ecma International who currently lead the work on the DIS29500 specification, Rex Jaeschke is the JTC1 project editor and Ecma’s TC45 is actively supporting his work.

From the Ecma International web site;

As outlined in news release dated 18 October 2007, Ecma is maintaining active involvement leading up to the ballot resolution meeting 25-29 February 2008 by supporting the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 Editor, Rex Jaeschke, who has been tasked with producing a proposed disposition of all 3522 comments received during the ballot period, and by maintaining a web portal accessible by National Body members which will host current drafts of the proposed comment dispositions.

The second link is to Brian Jones’s blog. Brian is the Microsoft representative on the TC45 committee and is without doubt the closest person in the company to the work that is currently underway. He talks about how the TC is working through the comments, some of the work that has been done to address the commonality of comments from different countries, and how many dispositions are currently available for review by the various national bodies.

From Brian’s blog;

There are currently 662 responses, and the plan is to provide updates to this list every few weeks. We still have almost 2 months until the deadline, but given that we have a lot of issues to work though, we thought it would be best to provide the responses earlier than the Jan deadline to allow for more time to discuss the issues.

Needless to say, there is still a lot to be done in the lead up to the BRM. For each of the national bodies around the Asia Pacific region though it is probably a good idea to ensure that you have an opportunity to review all of the work coming out of Ecma at the moment in preparation for that meeting.