ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 is a subcommittee of the ISO/IEC JTC1 joint technical committee, which is a collaborative effort of both the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission.

1 Scope and Terms of Reference
2 Inactive P-Members
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Scope and Terms of Reference

Standardization in the field of document structures, languages and related facilities for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including

languages for document logical structures and their support facilities
languages for describing document-like objects in web environments
document processing architecture and
formatting for logical documents
languages for describing interactive documents
multilingual font information interchange and related services
final-form document architecture and page information interchange
hypermedia document structuring language and application resources
APIs for document processing

[edit] Inactive P-Members

Around September 2007, several new members joined and became Participating (P) Members to vote for approval of Office Open XML. Afterwards, they refused to vote on other proposed standards, despite pleas to do so.

Because the subcommittee requires that at least 50% of P-members vote on a specification for it to become an ISO/IEC certified standard, SC 34 was unable to pass any new standards. Whether the subcommittee would be able to improve the situation, or whether they would simply be unable to further conduct any business, was unclear.^[1]

By mid December 2007, this problem seems to have started clearing up.^[2]