Out of 3500+ objections/comments, just some 662 have kind of been adressed with comments proposals from JTC1, but even those are being made most difficult to access.
Confront this with Microsoft's PR and judge by yourself about how "open" its MSOOXML format is and how "transparently" is being put through the whole standarization process:
Source: Rob Weir: "662 resolutions, but only if you can find them"
Microsoft has managed to get JTC1 to clamp down on information. What was a transparent process is now mired in multiple levels of security leading to delay, denial of information to some NB participants and total opaqueness to the public.
Let's review how things worked with ODF.
1. OASIS ODF TC mailing list archives are public for anyone to read
2. OASIS ODF TC public comment list archives are public for anyone to read
3. OASIS ODC meeting minutes, for every one of our weekly teleconferences going back to 2002, are all public for anyone to read.
4. The results of ODF's ballot in ISO are public, including all of the NB comments
5. The comments on ODF from SC34 members are also public
6. The ISO Disposition of Comments report for ODF is also public for anyone to readShort of allowing the public to read my mind, there is not much more we can do in OASIS to make the process more transparent. (And if you read this blog regularly you already have a good idea of what I'm thinking.)
But what about the OOXML process? Every single one of the above items is unavailable to the public, and in many cases cases is not available even to the JTC1 NB's who are deciding OOXML's fate.