in070124
January 19, 2007
| Subject: |
INCITS Agenda Item on Contradiction Comments on JTC 1 8455
- IBM Contribution |
| From: |
Ron Silletti, IBM Corporation |
Jennifer, I would like to make the following
contribution to the INCITS agenda could you please post the contribution:
I would like to bring to the attention of
the INCITS members the following 5 items:
1) Many National Bodies including
many different secretariats had a difficult time securing the complete JTC
1 N8455 official set of documents on a timely basis...For the ones that
eventually secured the documentation, they were unable to send the information
over the network to their subject matter experts and constituents that were
interested. Covering 6000+ pages in 30 days is an impossible task...many
NBs have even much less time...
2) I would like to suggest that INCITS
make an official request and ask V1 for their review and position on JTC
1 N8455 alleged contradictions. They have the expertise and know how
and are much closer to this topic as demonstrated below.
V1 -Text Processing: Office and Publishing
Systems Interface
Technical Committee V1 supports national
and International level Office and Publishing Systems standards. The projects
are assigned to specific areas, as follows:
- User Requirements
- Document Architecture
- Content Architectures
- Text Interchange
- Text Description and Processing Language
- User System Interfaces/Symbols
- Fonts
The objective is to develop one international
standard whenever possible. Since the scope of V1 is quite broad, it is
necessary to create closer liaisons with other technical committees and
special groups in order to establish good relations to avoid duplication
of efforts. A number of new or extended areas are gaining interest in V1
such as Voice Messaging, Icons, Data Architecture, Font Services, MHS/X.400,
Publishing Applications, Models and others related to Office and Publishing
Systems.
This technical committee is the U.S.
TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 and provides recommendations on U.S. positions
to the JTC 1 TAG
3) Alleged National
Body Contradiction Comments
- JTC 1 N8455 is inconsistent with
and contradicts ISO/IEC JTC1 26300 “Open Document Format for Office Applications”.
N8455 specifies an inconsistent method of encoding office documents
in XML and will create confusion among users.
- JTC 1 N8455 is inconsistent with and
contradicts ISO 8601:2004 “Representation of Dates and Times”. N8455 requires
inconsistent and incorrect day and date calculations.
- JTC 1 N8455 is inconsistent with and
contradicts ISO 639 “Codes for the representation of names of languages”.
N8455 mandates a fixed, closed list of numeric language codes rather
than the open list as described by ISO 639.
- JTC 1 N8455 is inconsistent with and
contradicts ISO/IEC 8632 “Computer Graphics Metafile”. N8455 utilizes
a contradictory Microsoft Windows specific metafile format rather than
the ISO metafile format defined by ISO/IEC 8632.
- JTC 1 N8455 violates the General Principles
of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. It cannot be fully understood
or implemented by a typical computer programmer without substantial technical
assistance from Microsoft. Numerous sections in the specification
refer to the undocumented behavior of Microsoft proprietary products.
Complying with those sections would be practically impossible without
further information.
- JTC 1 N8455 apparently violates Section
2.14 of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 1. Microsoft's commitments
regarding patents do not cover all material which would needed to create
a full implementation of the proposed standard.
4) An example of public coverage
in the marketplace
article: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004805o-2000331777b,00.htm
article: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007011720521698
The wiki pages are here:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_at_JTC-1
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections
5)Motion
I would like to recommend that the US
National Body accept the alleged contradiction comments above and send them
to the JTC 1 Secretariat...
Best regards,
Ron Silletti