[dsdl-discuss] (off-topic) Splitting up a fast-track standard

 Can anyone (Ken?) tell me, what are the procedural options at ISO for
splitting up a fast-tracked standard into separate standards (not parts)
as part of ballot resolution, without requiring extra time?

The motivating case is, of course, Office Open XML. As a standard I
suspect there are two flaws that could usefully be corrected:

 1) OPC should become an independent standard. Open Packaging
conventions are the *only* place in standarddom where ZIP is specified,
and it would great if it were politically positioned where ODF could
pick it up. It also does much of what Bento/OpenDoc did, providing a
compound file format with a lookup table system to give name and
location independence of parts. OPC is about 131 pages.

 2) VML should be moved out, into a technical report or annex. It is
legacy documentation (actually there are a few places it is used rather
than DrawingML but I expect MS and other implementers will want to kill
it off in the future) which is useful but problematic in a standard.

So my question is that if a national body said "These things should be
moved in different standards or TR or PAS" can ISO just be asked to
allocate some new documents, the editors make the split, and all the new
documents become FDIS? In other words, as part of a ballot resolution,
can 1 exceptionally large DIS be split into multiple FDISs with
different numbers?

Cheers
Rick

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