Edited sentence: During the 1990s, ISO gained a reputation for being slow, bureaucratic, congested, and insensitive to feedback from both vendors and their customers.One problematic project was the enormous Open Systems Interconnection project, which attempted to industry merely by virtue of being International Standards.The individual nations and their standards bodies remain the final arbiters.This also reflects the fact that national and international experts responsible for creating these standards do not always agree and not all proposals become standards by unanimous vote.This is to allow for situations where certain types of standards may conflict with social, cultural or legislative expectations and requirements