[ossig] ODF a National Standard in Korea

[Ditesh Kumar]

Good to hear this! Whilst detractors keep spinning FUD about ODF,
elsewhere in the world positive and constructive work is ongoing in
building and adopting truly open standards.

:)

Regards.

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 19:30 +0800, Hasannudin Saidin wrote:
> From: http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/11/odf-a-national-.html
> 
> 
> ODF a National Standard in Korea 
> 
> South_korea_flagIf you haven't heard already, ODF is a National
> Standard in South Korea for a couple of months now. See the news
> linked below (also transcribed) -- Ditesh, urr... would you be able to
> translate to English? 
> 
> [Update 14 Nov 2007: I just appended the English translation after the
> piece in Korean below. Thanks to YH Woo for the translation.] 
> 
> The proposal for ODF to be accepted as a Malaysian Standard by SIRIM,
> Department of Standards Malaysia and ultimately the Minister of
> Science, Technology & Innovation is dormant for more than a year now.
> Four months after the Malaysian proposal went to sleep, Italy made ODF
> a National Standard. Eight months after that, Korea has followed suit.
> With this Korean news, perhaps the Malaysian proposal will be
> awakened. 
> 
> The Korean news (thanks to my colleague ,YH Woo): 
> 
> http://www.dt.co.kr/contents.html?article_no=2007082802010760600004 
> 
> [English translation below:] 
> 
> ODF ‘office document’ established as KS 
> 
> Unique in Korea… To influence document standard in public
> institutions 
> 
> Development into open process
> Approved as ISO standard in May 2006 
> 
> August 28, 2007 
> 
> Open document format (ODF) has been approved as national standard (KS)
> office document format.  
> 
> On August 27, Korea Agency for Technology and Standards announced it
> accepted ODF as national standard (KS). Office application such as
> word processor, spreadsheet, presentation has been accepted as
> document format for the first time. Following KS establishment, ODF
> now stands as the national standard.  
> 
> Although ODF is approved as KS, it is not compulsory for users.
> Nonetheless, experts regard it as significant for it is the only KS in
> office document format. Henceforth it could be influential in public
> institutions’ choice of document standard.  
> 
> The purpose of XML-based ODF is for document contents to become
> independent from specified application or vendor’s file format. Hence
> open and transparent standardization process through opinions from
> worldwide user community is being developed and its position has
> strengthened since its official approval from ISO, international
> organization for standards, as file format standard.  
> 
> At the time, 23 countries with voting rights including Korea all voted
> in favor, thus it was approved as ODF without any objection.  
> 
> According to an official at Korea Agency for Technology and Standards,
> “ODF was approved as ISO standard for it realizes open mind with
> participation of various vendors and it is not subordinated to a
> specific vendor. These reason also worked for the approval as KS.” 
> 
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