ISO has officially announced the outcome of the OOXML fast track ballot.
“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.”
A South African technical sub-committee voted 13 votes to 4 to recommend that South Africa should vote against acceptance of OOXML, as an XML based open document format, as an additional standard, to the existing standard, on technical grounds.
