Editorial: It’s Time to Forge a New Public-Private Partnership in U.S. Standards Development

Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP

1/04/2011
(Original Publish Date: 1/3/2011)

On December 8, the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) issued a public Request for Information on behalf of the recently formed Sub-Committee on Standards of the National Council of Research and Technology. The titular goal of the RFI is to assist the Sub-Committee in assessing the "Effectiveness of Federal Agency Participation in Standardization in Select Technology Sectors." Although the publication of the RFI gave rise to not a single article in the press, this event was none the less very consequential.