User talk:Alexbrn

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[edit] Removing links

I noticed you removed a link, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Office_Open_XML&diff=129020418&oldid=129000945 (i.e. * OOXML.ScriptumLibre.org focuses on national standardization committees in order to have a fair ISO voting.

However what we do there has everything to do with the subject and is highly relevant, in the working group JTC1 commission members and volunteers are working on texts for the final ISO voting. You seem to disagree with a good reason ("Somebody else already removed this link before. It is not appropriate to have campaigning organisations (N.B. reference to "our side" on the site) listed here") but it is not good for Wikipedia to remove the link either. Can you put the link back in a way it suits you better?

I prefer a direct mail to wiebe@vrijschrift.org

Best regards, Wiebe

From the above it looks like you've removed more that one link without clear reason. I'm putting back the link you removed today, because it was already discussed at the talk page. If you have any problem with this please address it there. Dovi 19:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BRM voting

You seem knowledgeable about ISO procedure.

I take it that votes from countries that aprove the spec but do not attend the ballot resolution meeting will be upheld in the meeting ? Also I wonder if countries that voted YES or NO can change their vote at the ballot meeting even if they have not submitted comments ? hAl 16:04, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Hal hi,

Yes, I am the convenor of the BRM (if it happens). There is no published source for the clarified procedure - yet. However, the SC34 secretariat has passed on, in private email, JTC1's observation that "formal votes are taken on an ISO member basis *of those present* at the BRM" [their emphasis]. I hope a clarifying document will be published in time which we can cite. Countries can change their votes from NO to YES or from YES to NO: the criterion for being able to vote at the BRM is that they voted in the letter ballot and so appear on ITTF's voting list. It is not clear whether a vote of "abstain" counts as a vote! Alexbrn 09:45, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] tenuous links

I see that you changed the OOXML article to remove the "distinguish" link to "Open Office XML." The content of that template was the subject of discussion on the OOXML Talk page. Please make the case for your change there. Thanks. —Fleminra 19:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC)