Template for comments and secretariat observations | Date: 2007-08-31 | Document: ISO IEC DIS 29500 |
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Type of com-ment2 | Comment (justification for change) by the MB | Proposed change by the MB | Secretariat observations on each comment submitted |
BPS | 2.18.4 | te | Borders styles specifies several different styles such as apples, balloons, fish and earth. None of these styles are completely specified in a repeatable and well documented manner (for example how thin is a “thin” line). Furthermore, the art style for “earth” only shows North and South America, Europe and Africa. The Asian continent, much less the Philippines, appears nowhere. | |||
3.7.17.53 and 3.17.287 | te | These are the sections which describes trigonometric Sine and Cosine functions as well as other sections describing other trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, this fail to specify if the arguments are in degree or radians. This built-in ambiguity in the specification can potentially lead to grossly inaccurate results as well as non-interoperable implementation of this part of the standard. | ||||
3.17.7.17 | te | This section which specifies the behaviour of AVEDEV which is supposed to return the average of the absolute deviations of its arguments is completely wrong as the corresponding formula in the specifications is to calculate the number of combinations of “n” things taken “k” at a time which is completely different function. | ||||
3.17.7.48 | te | This section which specifies the CONVERT function allows liquid measure conversion such as from liters to cups or spoons. Different countries have different standard sized cups and spoons and this ambiguity can further complicate applications implementing this standard. | ||||
3.17.7.54 | te | This section which specifies the DATE function only accepts years starting with the year 1900. Earlier dates which are important in the Philippine history are not supported. Also, the year 1900 is treated as a leap year which is an error considering that the Gregorian Calendar correctly specifies that it is not a leap year. | ||||
11.3.1 | te | On alternative format imports states that “plain text” is an accepted format. This part is ambiguous as there are numerous standard definitions of what “plain text” is. Also, this same section makes references to “Rich text format” which is a proprietary format owned by a single foreign company. | ||||
2.15.3.6 | te | As well as other sub-sections within this level make references to proprietary applications whose behaviors are undefined in the standard. For example, autospaceLike Word95 specifies that implementations should autospace like Word95 but exactly how Word 95 autospaces is a Microsoft Company secret. |
1 MB = Member body (enter the ISO 3166 two-letter country code, e.g. CN for China; comments from the ISO/CS editing unit are identified by **)
2 Type of comment: ge = general te = technical ed = editorial
NOTE Columns 1, 2, 4, 5 are compulsory.
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