A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, as an International Standard by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has not achieved the required number of votes for approval.
The official ISO press release is now available.
It’s good to see that trying to rort the standards process hasn’t worked this time, and a badly broken standard has not been foisted upon ISO through dubious means.
Yet.
There’s still the comments process.
Then that’s only the end of the fast track process. Given the way the voting bodies have been stacked to date, it should be possible to stack the voting bodies of the normal approval process.