• To: "'Rich Salz'" <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: RE: ISO and the Standards Golden Hammer (was Re: [xml-d ev] You call that a standard?)
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:39:34 +0100
• Cc: "'Ken North'" <kennorth@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <40926CD9.2090700@d...>
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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.)

I'm not an expert, but I seem to recall that when ISO started doing SQL work
in the 1980s there were objections raised. I believe a lot of the things we
know as ISO standards were actually developed in ECMA.

Michael Kay 

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