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Now an OOXML Protest from Denmark's OSL - Updated 2Xs

By Pamela Jones et al.

ComputerWorld Denmark is reporting that a strong letter of protest has been sent to ISO from Open Source Leverandørforeningen in Denmark (OSL):

President Morten Kjærsgaard from OSL have today lodged an official complaint to the ISO Vice President Jacob Holmblad, who also sits as managing director of Danish Standard.

"Our appeal goes both on process with Danish Standard, but also to the lack of technical implementations in OOXML ISO level. Jacob Holmblad will appeal directly, because he has one foot in each camp," explains Morten Kjærsgaard to Computerworld....

Thus, the OSL in the wake of Jens Kjellerup, IT manager at the town executive for Children and Young People in Aarhus municipality, 14 days ago complained to the Danish Standard of OOXML process.

You can read a translation of the article or if you can, here's the letter [PDF] itself. If any of you can provide a translation of the letter, or refinements of the article's translation, please do.

Update: We have a translation of the letter now, thanks to Groklaw member KarlJorgensen. It states that ISO rules were broken, there was no consensus in Denmark, and that the Fast Track process "has been formally annulled for 2 months now - since the 29th of March, where the specification should have been sent to the national standardization organizations. The basis for a fast track procedure is no longer present, and I therefore expect ISO to pick up the case again." Read on for the full letter.

Full post as published by Groklaw on May 31, 2008 (boomark / email).