The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology--<A HREF="http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3945&tag=nl.e539">Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard</A> after appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of the document failed to garner sufficient support.

None of the appeals from Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela received the support for further processing of two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC Standardization Management Board, as required by ISO/IEC rules governing the work of their joint technical committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology.