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
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 |
Edit: missed the USA at the top. Updated list accordingly
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 -