• To: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: Re: ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: You call that a standard?)
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:12:25 -0400
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> It used to be a rule that ISO was not allowed to start new work, it was only
> allowed to ratify work submitted by one of its member bodies.

How long ago was this?  Perhaps I'm showing my naivete by conflating ISO 
and ITU.  (I'm certainly not alone in that; most folks think of X.xxx 
standards as ISO things, viz the ISO seven-layer reference model.)

	/r$

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