The title really says it all: The Ecma applies for a fast-track procedure at the beginning of 2007; despite objections, it’s going through the process with a razor-thin margin. Remember the fast-track proceedings are about checking major flaws in the specification beforehand. Nothing comes out of it, but when it goes through examination by the countries, thousands of comments, most of them pointing out to alleged issues, hundreds of them actually highlighting major flaws in OOXML, are being produced and published. 

 Back to our time now: On the 14th of January 2008, the final set of answers to the comments  is being published on the Ecma web site (note that you still need a password to access those so the public is left out in the wild). The closed OOXML specification (just because it does not match the publicity requirement makes it lose its “open” attribute) will thus be amended. 

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