OOXML Vote Coverage
27 March 2008
This post aims to keep track of the OOXML vote as the situation develops and more votes drip out.
The voting is all over now, you can find the official results here. What remains below is for historical interest only.
If you find out about a result not listed here, please add it to the comments straight away.
As information on different votes comes out, I will add it to my Python database of votes (see last post) which will automatically regenerate this blog post.
This way, we might get enough votes to predict the overall result before it is officially published. All these votes are of course informal, the media could make them up.
Without further ado, here are the current votes as we know them:
Votes
P Members: Canada: No Turkey: Abstain Italy: Abstain Czech Republic: Yes USA: Yes India: No Costa Rica: Yes Malta: Yes France: Abstain Ireland: Yes Venezuela: No Ecuador: No Saudi Arabia: Yes Korea: Yes Iran: No Singapore: Yes Norway: Yes Slovenia: Yes China: No Belgium: Abstain Germany: Yes Kazakhstan: Yes Spain: Abstain Netherlands: Abstain Denmark: Yes Finland: Yes Trinidad and Tobago: Yes Australia: Abstain Japan: Yes Switzerland: Yes New Zealand: No Pakistan: Yes South Africa: No Uruguay: Yes Lebanon: Yes United Kingdom: Yes Malaysia: Abstain Kenya: Abstain Cyprus: Yes
O Members:
Brazil: No Qatar: Yes Bangladesh: Yes Kuwait: Yes Panama: Yes Luxembourg: Abstain Peru: Yes Nigeria: Yes Argentina: Abstain Ghana: Yes Israel: Yes Belarus: Yes Cuba: No Zimbabwe: Abstain Jordan: Yes Bosnia and Herzegovina: Yes Armenia: Yes Thailand: Yes Philippines: Yes Ukraine: Yes Chile: Abstain Libya: Yes Tanzania: Yes Côte-d'Ivoire: Yes Mauritius: Yes Morocco: Yes Serbia: Yes Croatia: Yes Syria: Yes Poland: Yes Russia: Abstain Jamaica: Yes Romania: Yes Portugal: Yes Mexico: Yes Egypt: Yes United Arab Emirates: Yes Viet Nam: Abstain Azerbaijan: Yes Uzbekistan: Yes Tunisia: Yes Austria: Yes Congo: Yes Greece: Yes Sri Lanka: Abstain Fiji: Yes Barbados: Yes
Predicted total result
Update: I now include an even more informal prediction of the total result, which assumes that those that we don't know about vote the same as they did in September.
P Approval: 73.3%, (higher than 66.7% needed).
Overall No Votes: 14.2%, (lower than 25% needed).
** OOXML Approved.**
Last updated: 2008-04-06 21:34:12.971197
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1 SZERVÃC Attila composer says...
nice work !
` SZERVÃC Attila`_ composer
Posted at 7:52 p.m. on March 29, 2008
2 Andrew West says...
3 things.
means their previous vote from September get carried through?
Why do people vote Abstain on a final vote anyway?
will vote for it as well? If not why, why not?
Posted at 11:45 p.m. on March 29, 2008
3 Andrew West says...
3 things.
means their previous vote from September get carried through?
Why do people vote Abstain on a final vote anyway?
will vote for it as well? If not why, why not?
Posted at 11:53 p.m. on March 29, 2008
4 Andrew West says...
Sorry but someone needs to implement a unique id to prevent form resubmission I think!
Posted at 11:55 p.m. on March 29, 2008
5 ais523 says...
@Andrew West:
new vote does not count (that's what an Abstain does), but the old vote does not count either.
consensus; all the P-members are supposed to vote, for instance.
accept DIS29500 this time round, but I have not seen confirmation of this (http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2008032907 1456170 claims to have a private email confirming this, though). What I've seen of the reported stories is that one of BSI's technical committees recommended that BSI vote to accept the standard, but that the BSI itself is not necessarily bound by this recommendation.
Posted at 6:45 p.m. on March 30, 2008
6 Mr Surbade says...
Is this some kind of test ? I don't buy it. Sorry
Posted at 8:15 a.m. on April 12, 2008