Hello all. I passed along advice from the TC's members to the
ISO publications staff producing the CD copy of IS 26300. They have
some opaque rules about filename length and nonalphabetic
characters. Given that it will not render the spec unusable, the
best way to speed production is to accept their proposal. Thank you
for the responses that allowed us to confirm that conclusion.
There still are some difficulties caused by slow updates to JTC1
status
information (administered by ISO staff). Some of those websites
still show 26300 as "in process", even though every last vote has
been taken and passed without dissent. There's apparently a delay
between the actual approval, and the time when the websites
acknowledge its approval -- this may be related to the production work
done to make compact disks and PDFs available for sale. OpenDocument
risks losing opportunities for early,adoption, if users rely on the
site's report and it inaccurately suggests that approval has not yet
occurred. We have asked for correction of the public status flags.
Regards Jamie
~ James Bryce Clark
~ Director of Standards Development, OASIS
~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org