Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> The request was rejected:
good good
> I just got off the phone with the NSAI. I was told that the reason Ireland
> wasn't among the 19 countries that voiced objections to ISO about this
> application because NSAI didn't have a mandate from it's members.
What does that mean?
> I was also told that this was the hottest topic the NSAI had seen in a year,
> and before that the last topic of similar scale was 5 years ago. The guy I
> talked to also explained the JTC and ISO procedure. For next time, he
> mentioned that in future it would be better if we submitted our objections
> in "the ISO format" - I'm not sure what that is
OOXML? :-p
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