Tracking the status of Office Open XML

UPDATE: OOXML has failed!

Final roundup here.

nilesh has created a google-map that shows the voting status.

See below for further info on the voting.

Update2: The official result has leaked by now. Lots of approval from non-P-Members, but not enough from P-Members.

Results are available here.



The submission of the OOXML document file format by Microsoft to ISO for fast-track acceptance as a worldwide standard, has created a heated discussion. Many (including me) view this >6000 page specification as being incomplete and severly bugridden. Nevertheless, only a few days short of the dead-line, many countries seem to either go for approve ("Yes"/"Yes with comments") or abstain - sometimes under very dubious circumstances - as can be read on noooxml.org.



Here I will try to keep track of votes, as published by each country, trying to allow estimations on whether the standard will be approved or not.





I am working mostly with noooxml.org as a source here. List of P-Members is taken straight from the iso.org website.
A word about me beforehand: I am just an interested individual - I have no insight into any official standards procedures nor am I affiliated with any of the involved parties. So - take my information with a grain of salt.


This is the list, then:



Participating Countries (JTC1 and/or JTC1/SC34)

• Australia ( JTC1 ): abstain


• Azerbaijan ( JTC1 ): ?


• Belgium ( JTC1 ): ?


• Brazil ( SC34 ): no


• Bulgaria ( SC34 ): ?


• Canada ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Chile ( SC34 ): abstain


• China ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Colombia ( SC34 ): yes


• Cyprus ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Czech Republic ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Côte-d'Ivoire ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Denmark ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Egypt ( SC34 ): ?


• Ecuador ( JTC1 ): no


• Finland ( JTC1 & SC34 ): abstain


• France ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Germany ( JTC1 & SC34 ): yes


• India ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Iran ( JTC1 ): no


• Ireland ( JTC1 ): no


• Italy ( JTC1 & SC34 ): abstain


• Jamaica ( JTC1 ): ?


• Japan ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Kazakhstan ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Kenya ( JTC1 & SC34 ): yes


• Korea, Republic of ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Lebanon ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Malaysia ( JTC1 ): ?


• Malta ( JTC1 & SC34 ): yes


• Netherlands ( JTC1 & SC34 ): abstain


• New Zealand ( JTC1 ): no


• Norway ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Pakistan ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Poland ( SC34 ): yes


• Romania ( SC34 ): yes


• Saudi Arabia ( JTC1 ): ?


• Singapore ( JTC1 ): yes


• Slovenia ( JTC1 ): ?


• South Africa ( JTC1 ): no


• Spain ( JTC1 ): abstain


• Sri Lanka ( SC34 ): ?


• Sweden ( SC34 ): abstain


• Switzerland ( JTC1 & SC34 ): yes


• Thailand ( SC34 ): ?


• Trinidad and Tobago ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• Turkey ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?


• USA ( JTC1 & SC34 ): yes


• United Kingdom ( JTC1 & SC34 ): no


• Uruguay ( JTC1 ): yes


• Venezuela ( JTC1 & SC34 ): ?

Other countries

• Argentina: abstain


• Hungary: abstain


• Palestine: no


• Portugal: yes

Some countries seem to be missing from that list - I wonder about the state of New Zealand, South Africa, Palestine and Portugal now?!

I think I finally understood the voting rules. I'll add another column to the table for countries, who are not P- or O-Members, but generally members of ISO.


Edit: Completely reordered the list. Now both P-Members of JTC1 and JTC1/SC34 are appearing.



Unfortunately there are still quite a lot of '?'s - would be great, if somebody could provide additional information.



Summary:

Votes	P-M JTC1 (41)	P-M SC34 (36)	Others	Total
yes	7	8	1	11
no	13	9	1	15
abstain	5	5	2	9
unclear	16	14	0	20

A note on the P-Members: the iso website says that there are 41 members, however only 40 are listed - perhaps the list is not up to date.
Edit: missed the USA at the top. Updated list accordingly



Up to now, nothing seems to be decided yet... discounting my possible lack of information, of course.



UPDATE:
According to this information, the vote for OOXML has failed. It did not reach the 2/3rds majority required by the P-Members of JTC1, as 13 members have been reported, voting "no" and 5 members are abstaining, with a total of 41 members. To get the 2/3rds majority, 19 members would have to vote "yes" on top of the 7 members that did already. However, only 16 members are remaining without a vote.



I will continue to fill in the gaps as more information gets public, until the official outcome is revealed. Meanwhile a great thanks goes to all those providing me with the necessary information - I could not have done it alone.



(End Update)






I'll try to link sources for each confirmed vote soon. Please contact me, if you have better (more accurate) information.





--Edit--
Sources updated


Combined result into table for better readability





--Edit--
List of members was flawed - relevant list is: JTC 1/SC 34