Traditionally, for every meeting we have in WG4, some conspiracy-theory is born on how much money the delegates received from Microsoft, how many sports-cars we each got from Microsoft or how we each had a Microsoft employee sitting on our laps dictating what we should say. So, I thought I... [More]

At this very moment we are discussing re-introducing the values on/off to the simple type ST_OnOff in the transitional part of OOXML. Background: Some countries (including Denmark and UK) argued during the DIS29500-process that the enumeration values "on" and "off&q... [More]

So ... everyone on the "who's who" list of OOXML maintenance is in Copenhagen eagerly working our way through a zillion defect reports and proposals for IS29500. The pace varies from hour to hour, but it is almost all of it quite interesting (cough!). We have quite a busy schedu... [More]

Ok - this post is going to be soooo different than what I had envisioned. I had prepared documents for "object embedding" and "document protection" but when I started testing them, I soon realized that only Microsoft Office 2007 implemented these features - at least amongst the applications I had ac... [More]

I thought I’d try to outline a bit what we actually did and what constituted our work in Prague. The agenda framing our work throughout these three days was this: Opening 2009-03-24 09:00 Roll call of delegates Adoption of the agenda Schedule for publication of reprints or T... [More]

Wow – this has been a tough week. I arrived at the hotel here in Prague (I am currently waiting in Prague Airport for my flight back to Copenhagen) at around 21:00. I met Doug in Copenhagen and flew with him to Prague and in the airport we ran into Kimmo. After 15 minutes in my hotel room I ... [More]

One of the most pressing matters we had to deal with in Okinawa was a question raised by quite a few people including members of the national body of Switzerland as well as hAl on the blogs of Alex Brown, Doug Mahugh and yours truly: How can you tell if a document is generated using the original ... [More]

  Last week (week 4 of 2009) we had the first face-2-face meeting in SC34/WG4 on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Since there is quite a big overlap between the participants of WG4 and those of WG5, the two groups meet at the same time and place to minimize travel costs and time awa... [More]

On Friday, October 24th the Danish mirror-committee to JTC1/SC34 had its bi-monthly meeting. On the agenda was, amongst other things, assignment of participants to the newly created working groups in JTC1/SC34, WG4 and WG5. For those of you not familiar with the establishment of these two gro... [More]

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