Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Which is definitive odf?

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"Sam Johnston" <samj@samj.net> wrote
on 06/16/2008 08:20:09 PM:


> The main thing holding me back is my lack of
understanding of the 
> international standards process, where 1.0 is ISO/IEC 26300:2006,
> but what of 1.1 and 1.2? If ISO status 'flows' from one version to
> another then this is a non issue, and even if it doesn't the 
> presumably 1.1 and 1.2 will follow in the footsteps of 1.0.
> 

I don't think ISO status has any relationship to interoperability
or conformance.  In fact, the most-commonly used ODF version today
is ODF 1.1, which is not an ISO standard.

In the end, I think choosing the ODF version is a
"privilege of membership" for those who actually join the proposed
TC.  I don't think we can expect for example, that a TC formed mainly
of ODF 1.1-supporting implementors and users will want to target ODF 1.2
first.  Similarly, a TC with mainly ODF 1.2 implementors/users represented
would not want to target ODF 1.1.  We really need to see the composition
of the proposed TC to answer this question.  The work of the TC must
be relevant to its members.  Otherwise, why would they invest the
time to serve on it?

-Rob