 Asset Publisher 2007-05-03 Call for comments: Proposal to adopt Office Open XML (Open XML) as an international standardOTTAWA —The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is seeking comments on a proposal to adopt Office Open XML (Open XML) as an international open standard. The work to standardize Open XML has been carried out by Ecma International as part of an open, cross-industry collaboration via Technical Committee 45 (Ecma TC45). On December 7, 2006, the Ecma General Assembly approved both adopting Office Open XML as an Ecma standard (ECMA-376) and submitting it for international approval under the fast-track process of the Joint Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization and the Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC JTC 1). About Open XMLMore and more organizations around the world are interested in achieving document processing interoperability, and creating digital archives using open formats. Office Open XML provides a common open standard for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that can be freely implemented across multiple applications and platforms. The standard enables the continued use of billions of existing documents and promotes document processing interoperability. To access the proposed standard and post your comments, visit the SCC’s extranet (publicly available forum). The deadline for comments is July 5, 2007. The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is a Crown corporation with the mandate to promote efficient and effective use of voluntary standardization. It is Canada's representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). For more information on the Standards Council of Canada’s programs and services, visit www.scc.ca or email [email protected]. Ecma International (Ecma) is a non-profit industry association of technology developers, vendors and users that develop standards for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). Ecma submits its work for approval as ISO, IEC, ISO/IEC and ETSI standards and is the inventor and main practitioner of "fast tracking" of specifications through the standardisation process in international standards organizations such as the ISO and the IEC. For more information, visit http://www.ecma-international.org. Roz Waddell
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