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Kaihsu Tai made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
The request was refused by Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
From: Kaihsu Tai
30 July 2008
Dear Madam or Sir,
Would you please indicate whether there has been any correspondence
between your Department (including your predecessor, the Department
of Trade and Industry) and either the Microsoft Corporation or the
British Standards Institution, regarding the standardization
process of Office OpenXML at the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), in particular, the draft international
standard ‘DIS 29500’. If such correspondence exists, would you
please provide a summary list containing a short description of
each piece of correspondence.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Dr Kaihsu Tai
From: Sriskandarajah Radhika (DIUS INN)
14 August 2008
<<acknowledgement of FOI 15 Aug 2008.doc>>
Dear Dr. Kaihsu Tai,
Please see attached.
Regards
Radhika Sriskandarajah
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From: Sriskandarajah Radhika (DIUS INN)
27 August 2008
<<Response to Dr Tai on open XML 28 Aug 2008.doc>>
Dear Dr Tai,
Please see attached letter.
Regards
Radhika
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recorded for legal purposes.
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Kaihsu Tai left an annotation (10 September 2008)
“I am pleased to confirm that there has been correspondence between the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS) (including its predecessor the DTI) and the British Standards Institution regarding the standardisation process of Office OpenXML at the International Organisation for Standardisation, in particular the draft international standard DIS 29500. There has not been any correspondence regarding those matters between DIUS (including its predecessor the DTI) and the Microsoft Corporation.
“We do not hold a summary list containing a short description of each piece of correspondence. Under the Freedom of Information Act we are not oblige to create information that does not exist. Indeed, under the Freedom of Information Act “information” means information recorded in any form so we have now determined that technically your request is not a request for information within the meaning of that act.”
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