Editorial: The Overwhelming of ISO/IEC JTC1

Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP

4/11/2008
(Original Publish Date: 1/2/2008)

On February 25 the doors of a conference room in Geneva, Switzerland will swing open to admit 120 standards professionals from 40 nations around the world. The unenviable goal of these chosen few over the ensuing five days will be to reconcile the technical comments that have been tendered in relation to a single specification proposed for adoption by ISO/IEC JTC1. I say unenviable, because what happens behind those doors after they close will more likely resemble a contentious debate in the General Assembly of the United Nations than the purely technical deliberations of a standards committee.