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Mme Sophie Clivio
ISO Central Secretariat
1, ch . de la Voie-Creuse
Case postale 56
CH- 1211 Genève 20

Y our Ref : ISO/TMB/TC 166

Our Ref : AH/AC

Subject : ISO/TSP - proposai for a new ISO TC online reputation

Date : 14 October 2013

Chère Sophie,

Afnor is pleased to submit to ISO/CS a TS/P that includes a proposai for the creation of anew ISO/TC on "online reputation".
Nowadays e-communities are created every day on the web and many surveys/opinions
circulate on the web. For companies , managing online reputation becomes a full-time job,requiring them to monitor rumors, defend and control their image and reputation. For
individual purposes managing its own reputation online is crucial for developing a goodreputation.
The impact on business, consumers and individuals of online reputation is highly linked withconfidence in social media.
With respect to open. competition, this goal may be achieved through adoption of common
rules and the development of appropriate tools and processes.
Developing high quality standards in order to shape and improve usages on internet andsocial media, would involve ali stakeholders of the value chain and would ensure thatpersans have confidence in those new technologies and media.
lt appears that this item does not fall into the scope of any existing ISO technical body. The
proposed TC will work with existing ISO TCs to avoid potential overlap and duplication ofwork.

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AFNOR, Association reconnue d'utilité publique· N" SIRET: 775 724 818 00205AFNOR is, of course, aware of the consultation on the ISO TS/P 240 "Brand evaluation" andunderstands there might probably be interactions and eventually possible overlaps between
the two proposais.
The present proposai is based on the interactions generated by the use of social media;
these interactions help the companies to better understand their market and the consumers
themselves in the perspective of improving the quality of their products/services and theircustomer relationship.
Therefore, the present scope emphasizes the online reputation for the benefit of thecustomer relationship with no consideration on the value of a brand, such as proposed in
the TS/P 240 related to "brand evaluation"; hense, the objective is the improvement of thetransparency -through development of methods and best practices- to better handle theonline reputation.
One of the proposed topics would be to develop a framework describing relationships
between customers (CtoC) or between communities of customers ; the objective is to extract
an interaction model which can be useful for the both parties:
the customer because (s)he feels involved in the process of evaluation of
products and/or services through the integration of his/her opinion in the
research of added value of products and/or services ;the company because it has to adapt its marketing policy for the improvement
or maintenance of its relationship with customers .
AFNOR is ready to take advantage of the comments accompanying both consultations inorder to refine the scope of its proposai and clarify the possible interactions/liaisons between
the two projected committees , providing they receive enough support, thus avoiding any
misunderstanding or overlaps.
Due to the need expressed by COPOLCO on consumer reviews, AFNOR is willing to submit
a New Work Item Proposai based on the French standard NF Z 74-501 'Online consumer
reviews' which is a topic to develop in priority in the work programme of the proposed ISO/TC
online reputation.
AFNOR is ready to provide the necessary resources in order to assume the Secretariat ofthis new ISO Technical Committee.

Sincerely yours,