Talk:Open Document Architecture

Write something about why OpenOffice.org made a new document format (OpenDocument) while this one already exists.

RDO format?
I thought that the Xerox .rdo format was an ODA format. assuming that there aren't two "Open Document Architecture"s. Okay, so RDO isn't "significant" outside the "print on demand" sector, but Xerox is a significant company. ErkDemon 00:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Timeline?
"The standard was initially completed at a ISO working group meeting in Ottawa in February 1989" -- err, no. The standard was completed at an ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG3 meeting in Paris La Defense, France, around Armistice (Nov. 11) 1987. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.137.241.28 (talk) 18:37, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

“Nothing but a failure”
“It would be improper to call ODA anything but a failure, but its spirit clearly influenced latter-day document formats that were successful in gaining support from many document software developers and users.”

Then it wasn’t a complete failure, was it? Maybe the bombastic first clause should be toned down some. Doug Ewell (talk) 16:37, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

I must do some editing...
I worked in the ESPRIT project that was mentioned in the History section, as an employee of ICL.

I take issue with the assertion that the ODA interchange format was based on SGML, because it wasn't. But it is the case that it used ASN.1, which is binary (SGML, like HTML and other variants, is text-based). This becomes significant when considering the cryptographic extensions (which I also worked on), which deserves a mention if I can dredge up some detail.

A lot of the early standardisation work was done under the auspices of ECMA, as standard 101. This standard is mentioned on the ECMA standards page in Wikipedia, but it is not linked to this page. When I have managed to insert something about ECMA here, I shall complete that link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MJCoon (talk • contribs) 16:29, 27 March 2022 (UTC)