Steve asked us to take an official position on this. Bob Davis moved and Dick Karpinski seconded, that we merge BASC standards and responsibilities into MSC, if this is offered to us. The motion passed with no objections. There is still a problem with distribution of drafts. The IEEE is making them harder to get, restricting access to working group members etc.
Standards are also too hard to get.
In order to be used, they have to be freely available on the Web. People are rarely going to buy a standard just in order to look at it. Every impediment to reading the standards we create reduces their utility and reduces the chance they will be used. Engineers prefer to reinvent in any case, and unavailability of the standards gives them more excuse. The problem, of course, is that the IEEE standards staff needs to get paid, and they rely on standards sales for income.