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On 1/13/11 9:40 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Interestingly, the *actual* format that the Ada standards have been
> submitted in has been .PDF. Although ISO recently tried to again insist on
> all documents being in their own closed template for Microsoft Office and in
> .Doc files. Which only works with US versions of Office. What's
> "International" about that?? Anyway, that has again been beaten back - the
> supposed reason that they wanted to do this is so that they could modify the
> standards if they needed to do so. But editors don't want ISO secretaries
> mucking with their standards! What a wonderful way to have a disaster
> (imagine deleting "not" from some text).

It is interesting to read the stories about ISO delegates  from
northern Europe around the time .doc/OOXML was suggested as an
ISO standard.
Delegates have voted Yes although their national technical committees
had tended to vote No---the committees were then staffed by more
willing members that would understand the advantages of .doc
much  better than the original members ...

The non-technical content of iWoz is illustrative, I think.
It is descriptive of what perhaps explains the special respect
that some Big Silicon Entrepreneurs have for standards organizations.