Multiple Standards according to ECMA
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| What does Jan van den Beld - former Secretary General of ECMA - have to say
| about multiple standards? He seems to be puzzled himself!
|
| Quote from his presentation:
|
| Q: Why do you want to have 5 [DVD related] formats? Do you still call that
| standardization?
| A: You are well paid. Shut up
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http://blog.angulosolido.pt/2008/03/multiple-standards-according-to-ecma.html
This includes the video. Watch this.
Recent:
Microsoft lobbyist using TBT for legal threats
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| Jan van den Beld, who was promoting OpenXML at the Geneva BRM for CompTIA, a
| well know Microsoft lobby group, is using the Technical Barriers to Trade WTO
| treaty for legal threats to governments:
|
| He also advised governments against mandating just one electronic
| document standard as it may run foul of World Trade Organization policies
| and open themselves to possible legal challenges. "One of the big
| concerns of WTO is that you should not use standards as a barrier to
| trade," he said.
|
| "If a government enforces [use of just one standard], that would mean the
| whole country is not allowed to use OpenXML. Then, they could get into a
| very difficult legal situation as they can be challenged legally,"
| opinioned van den Beld.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-52518/microsoft-lobbyist-using-tbt-for-legal-threats
Related:
The commercial value of ISO privileged access
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| Jan van den Beld 'sents love letters' to the ISO system and leaches out
| against parties who want to appeal.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50865/the-commercial-value-of-iso-privileged-access
Return of the Living Dead - Brainless Attack on MoSTI - Part Deux!!!
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| I dont know what the attraction is, but somehow we all love the morbid
| fascination of Zombies in action. First, Microsoft^H^H^H^H^HCompTIA hires Mr
| Jan van der Beld, Ex-Ecma Secretary General, to fly all the way here in KL,
| for an event supposedly about "good multiple standards". There he challenges
| us to find a better way to Fast Track large, immature vendor dependent
| specifications. The answer is of course: "Don't do it." Later on that same
| day, like a man possessed, he turns up at a PIKOM meeting only to rant and
| thump tables.
|
| Then today, in our fantastic broadsheet turned tabloid "The New Straits
| Times" features a "Comment" by our so called "cooler head" Datuk Dr Mohd
| Ariffin Aton entitled "Walking the Talk on neutrality policy". If you've
| forgotten about him, you may be forgiven, but he is or rather WAS the CEO if
| SIRIM Bhd.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/return-of-the-l.html
Former ECMA Sec. Gen challenges ISO/BRM critics to create a better process
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| "If people say this whole ISO process is lousy, out of date and doesn't work
| anymore or is broken, I challenge anybody to make a new worldwide process,"
| van den Beld told PC World while in Australia working for the Computing
| Technology Industry Association.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1518565063
And the award goes to... (top 10 worst Ecma responses)
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| If there are awards to be given to categories of worst dispositions provided
| by Ecma in response to comments by National Bodies for the OOXML balotting on
| 2 September 2007, then the ODF Alliance's list of top 10 (plus 1 bonus!) is a
| good one. The categories are:
|
| 10. Worst Ignored Request
| 9. Worst non-Answer
| 8. Worst use of XML
| 7. Worst Introduction of Security Holes
| 6. Worst 'Back Door' Tactic
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/02/and-the-award-g.html
Give us the password!
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| What is needed now is the public and unconditional access to the works of the
| TC 45. What is needed now is for the Ecma to give the password to their page.
| Give us the password!
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2007/12/13/give-us-the-password/
A Peek Behind the Ecma OOXML Curtain
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| A particularly contentious issue has been whether Ecma is trying to make it
| as easy as possible, or is trying to make it as difficult as possible while
| still scoring PR points, for interested parties to view proposed dispositions
| of comments, and whether it does, or does not, have the latitude under ISO
| rules to be more transparent. The fairly opaque, and sometimes contradictory
| nature of those rules, has not made the debate any easier, and gives rise to
| the possibility of confusion, at best, and serious mistakes, at worst, as
| Pamela Jones pointed out at Groklaw this morning.
|
| The result is that there will be very little real data available to the
| general public until Ecma opens the curtains on January 19. And the import of
| what little data does become available is usually the subject of instant
| disagreement.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007121304552774
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