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TO THE NATIONAL BODIES OF ISO/IEC JTC 1

Information technology
ISO/IEC JTC1

TO THE OTHER ISO MEMBER BODIES

2008-04-01 CC: CHAIR AND SECRETARY OF ISO/IEC JTC1

CC: BALLOTERS OF ISO MEMBER BODIES

Result of voting on ISO/IEC DIS 29500

Dear Sir or Madam,

As you will be aware, the 30-day period during which ISO/IEC national bodies had the
opportunity to reconsider their votes on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 closed at midnight on
Saturday, 29 March 2008.

For your convenience, attached is a summary of the updated voting table.

For the balloters of ISO member bodies, the updated voting table and results are available
on ISOTC server at:

http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/eb3/part/dis/ballotAction.do?method=doViewResult&id=17686&t
ab=ballot.result.label

As you will see, the criteria for acceptance have now been met.

Yours faithfully,

Kevin McKinley
Deputy Secretary-General

Enclosure

SG/14903264
Ballot Information
Reference ISO/IEC DIS 29500 Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
Edition number 1

English title Information technology -- Office Open XML file formats

French title Technologies de l'information -- Formats de fichier "Office Open XML"

Start date 2007-04-02 End date 2007-09-02

Opened by ISO/CS on 2007-03-30 17:17:56 Closed by ISO/CS on 2008-03-31 16:22:56
Status Closed

Voting stage Enquiry Version number 1

Note New result of voting after official 30 days enquiry ending 2008-03-29

Result of voting

P-Members voting: 24 in favour out of 32 = 75 % (requirement >= 66.66%)

(P-Members having abstained are not counted in this vote.)

Member bodies voting: 10 negative votes out of 71 = 14 % (requirement <= 25%)

Approved
Votes by members
Country Member Status Approval Disapproval Abstention
Argentina IRAM O-Member X*
Armenia SARM O-Member X
Australia SA P-Member X*
Austria ON O-Member X*
Azerbaijan AZSTAND P-Member X
Bangladesh BSTI X
Barbados BNSI X
Belarus BELST O-Member X
Belgium NBN P-Member X*
Bosnia and Herzegovina BAS X
Brazil ABNT O-Member X*
Bulgaria BDS O-Member X*
Canada SCC P-Member X*
Chile INN O-Member X*
China SAC P-Member X*
Colombia ICONTEC O-Member X*
Congo, The Democratic OCC X
Republic of
Costa Rica INTECO O-Member X
Côte-d'Ivoire CODINORM P-Member X
Croatia HZN O-Member X
Cuba NC O-Member X*
Cyprus CYS P-Member X
Czech Republic CNI P-Member X
Denmark DS P-Member X
Ecuador INEN P-Member X*
Egypt EOS O-Member X
Fiji FTSQCO X
Finland SFS P-Member X
France AFNOR P-Member X*
Germany DIN P-Member X*
Ghana GSB X*
Greece ELOT O-Member X*
India BIS P-Member X*
Iran, Islamic Republic of ISIRI P-Member X*
Ireland NSAI P-Member X
Israel SII O-Member X
Italy UNI P-Member X*
Jamaica BSJ P-Member X
Japan JISC P-Member X
Jordan JISM X*
Kazakhstan KAZMEMST P-Member X
Kenya KEBS P-Member X*
Korea, Republic of KATS P-Member X
Kuwait KOWSMD X
Lebanon LIBNOR P-Member X
Luxembourg SEE O-Member X
Malaysia DSM P-Member X*
Malta MSA P-Member X*
Mauritius MSB X
Mexico DGN O-Member X
Morocco SNIMA O-Member X
Netherlands NEN P-Member X
New Zealand SNZ P-Member X*
Nigeria SON X
Norway SN P-Member X
Pakistan PSQCA P-Member X
Panama COPANIT X
Peru INDECOPI O-Member X
Philippines BPS O-Member X
Poland PKN O-Member X*
Portugal IPQ O-Member X*
Qatar QS X
Romania ASRO O-Member X
Russian Federation GOST R O-Member X
Saudi Arabia SASO P-Member X
Serbia ISS O-Member X
Singapore SPRING SG P-Member X*
Slovenia SIST P-Member X
South Africa SABS P-Member X*
Spain AENOR P-Member X*
Sri Lanka SLSI O-Member X
Switzerland SNV P-Member X*
Syrian Arab Republic SASMO X
Tanzania, United Rep. of TBS X
Thailand TISI O-Member X
Trinidad and Tobago TTBS P-Member X
Tunisia INNORPI O-Member X*
Turkey TSE P-Member X*
Ukraine DSSU O-Member X
United Arab Emirates ESMA X
United Kingdom BSI P-Member X
Uruguay UNIT P-Member X*
USA ANSI Secretariat X*
Uzbekistan UZSTANDARD X
Venezuela FONDONORMA P-Member X*
Viet Nam TCVN O-Member X
Zimbabwe SAZ X
P-Member TOTALS 24 8 9
Total of P-Members voting: 32
TOTALS 61 10 16
(*) A comment file was submitted with this vote
Comments from Voters
Argentina IRAM O-Member Argentina(IRAM).doc
Australia SA P-Member Australia(SA).doc
Austria ON O-Member Austria(ON).doc
Belgium NBN P-Member Belgium(NBN).doc
Brazil ABNT O-Member Brazil(ABNT).doc
Bulgaria BDS O-Member Bulgaria(BDS).doc
Canada SCC P-Member Canada(SCC).doc
Chile INN O-Member Chile(INN).doc
China SAC P-Member China(SAC).doc
Colombia ICONTEC O-Member Colombia(ICONTEC).doc
Cuba NC O-Member Cuba(NC).doc
Ecuador INEN P-Member Ecuador(INEN).doc
France AFNOR P-Member France(AFNOR).doc
Germany DIN P-Member Germany(DIN).doc
Ghana GSB Ghana(GSB).doc
Greece ELOT O-Member Greece(ELOT).doc
India BIS P-Member India(BIS).doc
Iran, Islamic Republic of ISIRI P-Member Iran,IslamicRepublicof(ISIRI).doc
Italy UNI P-Member Italy(UNI).doc
Jordan JISM Jordan(JISM).doc
Kenya KEBS P-Member Kenya(KEBS).doc
Malaysia DSM P-Member Malaysia(DSM).doc
Malta MSA P-Member Malta(MSA).doc
New Zealand SNZ P-Member NewZealand(SNZ).doc
Poland PKN O-Member Poland(PKN).doc
Portugal IPQ O-Member Portugal(IPQ).doc
Singapore SPRING SG P-Member Singapore(SPRINGSG).doc
South Africa SABS P-Member SouthAfrica(SABS).doc
Spain AENOR P-Member Spain(AENOR).doc
Switzerland SNV P-Member Switzerland(SNV).doc
Tunisia INNORPI O-Member Tunisia(INNORPI).doc
Turkey TSE P-Member Turkey(TSE).doc
Uruguay UNIT P-Member Uruguay(UNIT).doc
USA ANSI Secretariat USA(ANSI).doc
Venezuela FONDONORMA P-Member Venezuela(FONDONORMA).doc

Comments from Commenters

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