AFNOR
[P]ut in place a convergence process between ISO/CEI 26300 [OpenDocument] and the core of OOXML, and to that end, to plan starting now the simultaneous updating of ISO/CEI 26300 and ISO/TS OOXML (on condition that the latter be adopted after the previously mentioned restructuring), with a view to obtaining at the end of the convergence process, a single standard which would be the most universal possible, and whose later evolutions would be decided at the ISO level and no longer at the level of a grouping or category of participants.
Sean Daly (translator), "France's AFNOR Has an Idea: Merge ODF and OOXML, Groklaw (September 3, 2007), http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070903174346143, original press release (in French) by Association française de Normalisation, http://portailgroupe.afnor.fr/v3/espace-presse/communiques/2007/070903-OOXML.htm.
