OOXML "already deprecated", restricted access, patents, pic

With ISO's Ballot Resolution Meeting starting next Monday (Feb 25th), there've been a few interesting publications today:

• DIS-29500: Deprecated before use? by FSFE's OOXML working group, explaining why Microsoft's format was undeserving from the start, how it now fails even its own criteria for usefulness.
• A Pre-BRM Miscellany, "Photo ID requirements, badged access to the meeting room, prohibitions against cameras and recording devices, no observers, no press."
• Developers warned over OOXML patent risk - ZDNet Australia article about concern over the meaning of terms in Microsoft's Open Specification Promise
• A photo of a printed copy of the OOXML specification :-)

Update: I originally misattributed the "Deprecated before use" article - it was actually a group effort, so thanks to Shane Coughlan, Georg Greve, and Marko Milenovic among others.