Toward A National Standards Strategy

Krista J. Johnsen Leuteritz, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Walter G. Leight, National Institute of Standards and Technology

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2000)

On September 23, 1998, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) co-hosted a summit conference, Toward a National Standards Strategy To Meet Global Needs. NIST Director Ray Kammer and ANSI President Sergio Mazza co-chaired a program that featured keynote addresses by Deputy Secretary of Commerce Robert Mallet and Dana Mead, Chairman and CEO of Tenneco and World Standards Day Chairman; a luncheon address by Evangelos Vardakas, Director, Directorate General III-B, Legislation, Standardization and Telematics Networks, European Commission; three panels comprised of standards experts from industry and government; and discussions of comments and questions raised by registered participants. This complete report of the Summit Proceedings contains full texts, figures, and such background papers as were provided by the speakers; they are presented in the order shown in the agenda. Transcriptions of comments and questions from the floor and the ensuing panelist responses are interspersed appropriately.