ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34

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.

cope 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

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. [ [http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20071016092352827 OOXML Payback Time as Global Standards Work in SC 34 "Grinds to a Halt"] ]

By mid December 2007, this problem seems to have started clearing up. [ [http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry071215-123604 Back from Kyoto] (Alex Brown, blog entry)]

Liaisons

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 liasons include: [http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/open/Secretariat_report.htm#Liaisons]

*IEC/TC 100 — Audio, Video and Multimedia Systems and Equipment
*ISO/TC 46 — Information and documentation
*JTC 1/SC 2 — Coded character sets
*JTC 1/SC 22 — Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
*JTC 1/SC 29 — Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio
*JTC 1/SC 32 — Data management and interchange
*Ecma International
*Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
*XML Guild — http://www.xmlguild.org (tentative on approval of JTC 1)
*World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

References

See also

* OpenDocument
* Office Open XML

External links

* [http://www.jtc1sc34.org ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Home Page]