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representatives for the developing world (

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and

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) state disappointment in the appeals by several of their

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/ IEC national bodies being dismissed by the ISO and IEC technical management boards in the Standardization of Office Open XML, and criticize the ISO/IEC for "inability to follow its own rules". As a consequence of this, the signers assert that they will re-assess the credibility of ISO/IEC, and that they will no longer consider ISO standards to be automatically valid for government use.

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*{{cite web , url=http://www2.consegi.gov.br/declaracao-ingles , title=CONSEGI 2008 Declaration , format=ODT , publisher=Portal CONSEGI , date=2008-09-01 , accessdate=2013-07-26 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203100/http://www2.consegi.gov.br/declaracao-ingles , archive-date=2016-03-03 , url-status=dead Computer file formats Free software culture and documents ISO standards XML-based standards

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