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No criticism or discussion about the ethics of a poll tax to read the law? This is a fine example of rent seeking and it's resultant drag on the economy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.167.108.3 (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
POR PARTE DE QUIEN? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dingo591 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
I know what standards bodies are, like everyone else contributing to this article I imagine, but I really think it should be dumbed down a little to allow for a lay audience to better grasp the concept (the ultimate aim of an encyclopedia, surely). I am certain that a sizeable percentage of people will read this without having the faintest idea of what "standards" actually are and how they affect our every day lives. To give an example of what I mean, this is the "suitable for a lay audience" text used by CEN on their website:
"Standards help to make life easier for consumers all over the world. Examples of standards are everywhere. However, most of us do not recognize them. The A4 paper sheet format is a standard, playpens for children need to conform to a standard, and standards can be made for a test method or production process.
What would happen if we did not have all these standards? A sheet of paper would no longer fit into an envelope; a credit card would not fit into a wallet. Trains would have difficulty traveling across borders…the list goes on.
Every aspect of society is reflected in the drafting of a new standard. Therefore, experts representing industry, consumers and other interests, like the environment or small and medium sized enterprises, sit around the table to discuss a new standard. Standards are decided upon by consensus to take into consideration all interests.
Standards can achieve what is difficult for marketing experts and business consultants: they increase consumer trust in the safety of a product and enable cheaper production. Blankfrackis (talk) 17:09, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
I suggest changing the heading for "Continental and transnational standards organizations" to "Regional organization" since it would cover all organizations that are neither international nor national. Any objections, opinions? April 26, 2006
Massive deletes without explanations is not very conducive to good editing. Please discuss major changes here before implementing. At least explain... Also- when making major changes - please sign in so we can ask you about them! Alex Jackl 02:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I think all the numerous professional organizations, interested primarily in one specific field of endeavor, should be split out into a separate listing. Gene Nygaard 23:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
how about creating a navigation-template for some/all orgs? I was thinking about a template for the web related consortiums, but after seeing this list (and the lit in th cat) i... will somebody help? mabdul 0=* 00:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
The article does not seem to make a clear distinction between official standardisation organisation and other organisations that produce "standards". For example, in Europe, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI are official standardisation organisations, and the EU sometimes gives them mandates to produce standards (like the current Mandate M/376 on accessibility of ICT in public procuremernt). ISO, IEC and ITU are official international standardisation organisations. CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, ISO etc are listed without distinction in the lists of organisations, although the distinction is important because there are governments whose legislation can only reference official standards, not those by other organisations such as W3C. --ChristopheS (talk) 13:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, My point was not about a distinction between standards (or at least not directly) or about whether governments approve standards, but about a disctinction between standardisation organisations. So I wasn't claiming that some standards are "better" than others. All standards are voluntary, but the standards from some standardisation organisations are suitable for references in law (for example those by CEN, CENELEC and ETSI in the EU) while the standards from other organisations are not, e.g. those from the World Wide Web Consortium. For example, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) are a W3C recommendation, and I know of no country with legislation related to web accessibility that references (WCAG 1.0). Germany translated the specification and changed it a little bit and integrated the resulting text in legislation. Spain created standard UNE 139803:2004 based on WCAG 1.0 instead of recognising WCAG 1.0 as an official standard. So it's not simply a matter of one standard being "better" than another standard, but of recognition by a national or international official standards body.
In this sense, ISO, IEC, ITU, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI are official international standards bodies (of course, the three last ones only in Europe), whereas IEEE, W3C, IETF, Ecma International and OASIS are not. Even though different governments use different criteria, the distinction is worth mentioning. --ChristopheS (talk) 17:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Maybe we should change the name to Standards Writing Organisation--Achim Hering (talk) 17:41, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
WHO standards body is added based on the following info:
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 10:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
and this
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 10:38, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
see my searh in the following...
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+FAO%2FWHO+standards&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=Search
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 11:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
and the ones at
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_ics_browse.htm?ICS1=67
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 11:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
plus the one of Codex Alexandrinus --222.67.209.134 (talk) 12:00, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't we make the list as a tabulated one to see each governming body ...??? Take a look at the example of List of plants used as medicine --222.67.209.134 (talk) 12:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
The section "Standards distribution" says that: "Giving standards away free of charge would eliminate the significant source of funding for standards developers." User Alvestrand says that this statement needs references. Possibly, the share of revenue through sales is different for NSB on the one hand and for regional & international organisations on the other. I'll start listing some figures below:
--ChristopheS (talk) 09:58, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Segmental Review
Note 5 to the Group financial statements analyses the performance of the Group by its principle segments. Within this analysis BSI British Standards delivered sales growth and significant improvements in operational delivery with revenue of £43.9 million (2006: £42.9 million) and a contribution of £9.4 million (2006: £7.6 million).
The BSI Management Systems revenue of £113.3 million (2006: £105.4 million) and contribution of £11.7 million (2006: £10.0 million) represents a very successful year with continued improvements in operational effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
The BSI Product Services revenue of £21.8 million (2006: £20.1 million) and contribution of £0.5 million (2006: £0.4 million) comes on the back of significant progress in streamlining its core business processes and growing its Healthcare and Kitemark® Services businesses whilst strengthening its international profile.
The article currently has some lists of organizations. These should be moved to the List of technical standard organisations. Rlsheehan (talk) 15:47, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
If the standards are all locked away within a payment system that only a manufacturer would have the deep pockets to afford purchasing, how is a free encyclopedia supposed to be able to reference these same standards if editors don't have the funds to each buy a copy of the standards for themselves?
If citations in an article are created that link to standards as a source, how is someone reading the list of references supposed to be able to access the standard for more information?
DMahalko (talk) 22:13, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
These standards are priced too high. We should have a 'free standards' page in Wikipedia where everyone can collaborate and build one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.162.106.66 (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
What do you feel? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.162.106.66 (talk) 09:24, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
What about Qin Shi Huangdi's standardization of everything from wheel axle sizes to the Chinese Orthography? Or the Indus Valley Civilization's (IVC) impressive standardized octal-decimal system of weights and measures, or the IVC's invention of interchangable parts (if I recall the latter correctly); these developments set a standard (no pun intended) that would not be surpassed until French Revolution and the Metric System and the 12th century Venitian Arsenal, respectively; so, why are they not mentioned? Or, for that matter, Teotihuacan's mass-produced thin-orange ware ceramics? 自教育 (talk) 17:22, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
Since there was no reference and it was a value judgement I took out the comment about the affected users of standards organizations being a "wide-base". I know of standards that target very narrow and specialized interests so I don't think it is accurate. Alex Jackl (talk) 15:30, 5 October 2016 (UTC)