The Deutsche Institut für Normung (DIN) in Germany announced on August 21st that it will support the advancement of Open XML as an ISO international standard.

Jason has blogged about Germany's announcement to Vote Yes with comments for Open XML on: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/08/22/germany-votes-yes-with-comments.aspx

Coincidentally (or not) IBM Germany had sent contradictions comments to Kenya in February 07 which were submitted by the Kenya Bureau of Standards together with comments from a Malaysian OSS blogger as official comments from Kenya. The metadata on the Kenya submissions still reflected the authors to be the two.