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- From: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: ISO Procedures
- Keywords: ISO, Standards
- Message-ID: <BtA8Jx.EMC@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 12:40:45 GMT
- Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
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- I just read Erik Naggums insights in the position of ISO in this world
- with great interest, but one question is still open for me:
-
- Who are the people responsible for technical decisions in the standards making
- process? How are they selected? How is guaranteed, that they represent the
- creme-de-la-creme of academic and industrial experts? Is everything organized
- more in a democratic or aristocratic way? If it is intended to be a democratic
- process, how can highly motivated independent people (e.g. like me ;-)
- have influence on the standardisation process without being employed in
- the marketing department of a huge company? Is it really a democratic process
- if my hobby of reading ISO documents is nearly as expensive for a student
- as drug abuse (as Erik Naggum wrote a few weeks ago :-)?
-
- Markus
-
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- Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany
- Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | X.500 entry available
- -A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't-
- -even know existed can render your own computer unusable. (Leslie Lamport)-
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