Despite the numerous issues and contradictions already enumerated during the ISO Fast Track process, the secretariat of ISO’s Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) on Information Technology, Lisa Rachjel, has apparently decided to continue with the Fast Track process for Microsoft's Office Open XML document format anyhow.

According to an e-mail sent Saturday by Lisa Rachjel, the secretariat of ISO’s Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) on Information Technology, the Open XML proposal, along with comments and criticism by nations that have already reviewed it, will be put on the ISO’s five-month balloting process....

Rachjel wrote that she decided to move Open XML forward after consulting with staff at the International Technology Task Force.