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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Corrupt Countries Were More Likely to Support the OOXML Document Format
Just a cautionary note, I guess. "During the voting process the reputation of ISO as a dependable technical standardization organization was questioned. For example, in Sweden a Microsoft representative was caught offering to recompense partners for voting yes to OOXML. Also a sudden interest from countries like Ivory Coast to the OOXML issue has been found suspicious." I like John Gruber's comment. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ISO Rejects Microsoft's Office Doc Format
Not that this is the end of it. After all, they tacked software patents into agricultural bills in Europe. So we can expect to see continued attempts to have Microsoft's Office formal as an ISO standard. The standards process, after all, is biased toward adoption. You can't just kill a proposal - you have to 'vote no with comments', which means that, once the comments are 'addressed', there is a very strong impelling force to vote 'yes'. More...

International Standard Name Identifier (ISO 27729)
International Standard Name Identifier, 2017/08/29
While publishers are pushing standards like ORCID, this is the ISO standard for names. "ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more." It's a distributed system. More...