Mauritzhansen sends us a blog post by Steve Pepper, former chairwoman of the Norwegian conforming to accepted a must bureau responsible for evaluating OOXML, reporting that the South African subject conforming to accepted conforming to accepted called for body, SABS, has appealed against the result of the OOXML DIS 29500 ballot in ISO. From the blog: "In a letter sent to the General receptionist 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.' Having resigned as introducer of the Norwegian commission responsible for now OOXML for exactly this reason, I congratulate South Africa on its willingness to stand up for the principles on which standardization work should be based."

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