Re: [tlug] Fwd: OOXML in Japan

[tlug@example.com]

On Friday 20 July 2007 23:04:16 Josh Glover wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion@example.com>
>
> Japan is a P-member, which means that they have an obligation to *vote*,
> and thus they have probably a technical committee in place to deal with the
> issue.

I was very happy to hear that Japan has created a policy to give priority to 
open standards (for government work) recently.  Here is the METI announcement 
and official document:
	http://www.meti.go.jp/press/20070629014/20070629014.html
Someone on /. posted an unofficial translation of the applicable section:
	http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=250373&cid=19867801

Hopefully the members of the OOXML committee are already knowledgeable about 
the issues and are on our side.

Cheers, Travis