Patrick Durusau has posted a couple of his now characteristic PDFs since the end of the IS29500 appeals process.
It is worth taking a moment to read both of them;
http://www.durusau.net/publications/listening.pdf
OOXML has been approved by a super-majority of those eligible to vote, appeals have been denied and yet the cry: “You’re Not LISTENING TO ME!” goes on. I don’t normally restrict my posts to one type reader but if you have never raised teenagers, please stop reading here.
The second talks to an issue that was articulated well during the process to standardize IS29500, but seems to have lost some momentum in the blogosphere during recent weeks.
http://www.durusau.net/publications/reform.pdf
Rob Weir (IBM) gets it right when he notes that the JTC 1 Directives are in serious need of repair. Those rules are the results of twenty plus years of effort by IBM and others. Whatever brought about the sudden realization at IBM that the JTC 1 Directives are deeply defective (post ODF approval apparently) isn’t as important as the shape of the needed reform.
They key to the second one will be keeping broad representation from the ICT industry involved in the standards process, something I know we’re all keen to do.