[jahewson]

> so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard

Well, yes that’s the reason why standards bodies exist :)

[gumby]

Normally standards bodies deliberate over the standard. IIRC Guy was saying that they just handed a document to ECMA and and it was stamped “approved”.

Hmm, I see the same was done with Dart…

[lozenge]

And C# as well

[unilynx]

And the MS Office XML formats