From owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org Thu Jun 21 12:08:57 2007 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:07:52 -0700 (PDT) From: jon.bosak@sun.com Subject: INCITS-V1: Calendars-Durusau-9 Sender: owner-incits-v1@incits-v1.org To: incits-v1@incits-v1.org Reply-to: incits-v1@incits-v1.org X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 X-Authentication-warning: jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com: bosak set sender to jon.bosak@sun.com using -f (For the text of the comment in question, see http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/v1mail/200705/2007May23-170237.eml) The comment Durusau-9 observes that Section 3.18.5 of Part 4 normatively references a dozen different calendars but does not define them and provides no references to standards that would define them. This is one aspect of a lack of grounding in public standards evident in the paucity of normative references noted earlier, made more problematic in this case by the notorious difficulties associated with calendars in particular. As Patrick notes, the absence of any reference to calendar standards makes in impossible to implement applications that produce or consume OOXML with any expectation that they will interoperate correctly with other such applications. To insure interoperability among conformant applications, the DIS must be corrected to provide either detailed specifications of the calendars for which it requires support or (preferably) references to standards that would provide such specification. Jon