Robert Sutor
"SIS CEO Lars Flink explains that in August 2007, SIS decided to abstain from voting on OOXML at ISO, after finding out some of the members in its OOXML committee had voted more than once. "Also, at the day of the vote, the SIS committee had also gotten between 25 and 27 new members, most of which were in favour of OOXML. At the time, our rules allowed such late-comers at the time. We have changed those rules." Since April of this year, organisations that want to vote on standards at SIS, must have been a member for at least three weeks, Flink says. "They must be a participant in the standard committee when we send out the documents, which is three weeks ahead of the vote." Flink did not know how many of the organisations that joined the OOXML vote at the last minute were still members. "I know a number of them have dropped membership.""
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