Talk:Standards organization

message: No criticism or discussion about the ethics of a poll tax to read the law?  This is a fine example of rent seeking and it's resultant drag on the economy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.167.108.3 (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

message: POR PARTE DE QUIEN?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dingo591 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on standards could be a place for this, although it reads well now. Rlsheehan (talk) 13:48, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

text: The article about standards is a better place to talk about what a standard is than this article.  There is already a link to that article in the opening sentence of this article.  -Pawnbroker (talk) 05:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs Dumbing Down 

message: Massive deletes without explanations is not very conducive to good editing.  Please discuss major changes here before implementing. At least explain... Also- when making major changes - please sign in so we can ask you about them! Alex Jackl 02:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive Deletes 

message: I think all the numerous professional organizations, interested primarily in one specific field of endeavor, should be split out into a separate listing.  Gene Nygaard 23:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Professional organizations

message: how about creating a navigation-template for some/all orgs? I was thinking about a template for the web related consortiums, but after seeing this list (and the lit in th cat) i... will somebody help? mabdul 0=* 00:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  nav-box/-template 

message: The article does not seem to make a clear distinction between official standardisation organisation and other organisations that produce "standards". For example, in Europe, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI are official standardisation organisations, and the EU sometimes gives them mandates to produce standards (like the current Mandate M/376 on accessibility of ICT in public procuremernt). ISO, IEC and ITU are official international standardisation organisations. CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, ISO etc are listed without distinction in the lists of organisations, although the distinction is important because there are governments whose legislation can only reference official standards, not those by other organisations such as W3C. --ChristopheS (talk) 13:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article does not make a distiction because a universal distiction does not exist.  For example, the Society of Automotive Engineers publishes several standards for the automotive industry.  An SAE standard might be mandatory for use with a government owned vehicle but the standard is not formally approved by any particular government.  That does not make SAE standards better or worse than an official CEN standard.  Many standards are voluntary for people to use or not to use.  One govermnent's criteria for approval will not be another's. Which government do you want to use?  Which governments should the article ignore?  Rlsheehan (talk) 01:59, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinction between official standardisation organisation and others 

message: WHO standards body is added based on the following info:
* http://www.who.int/peh-emf/standards/en/
* http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118648915/abstract
* http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118926704/abstract
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 10:26, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A topic of .... 

message: see my searh in the following...
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+FAO%2FWHO+standards&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=Search
--222.67.209.134 (talk) 11:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm very confused with the infrastructures of International Standards Bodies..... 

message: The article currently has some lists of organizations.  These should be moved to the List of technical standard organisations.  Rlsheehan (talk) 15:47, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved Rlsheehan (talk) 16:32, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists 

message: These standards are priced too high. We should have a 'free standards' page in Wikipedia where everyone can collaborate and build one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.162.106.66 (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: you are able to create a spec/standard where you want. take github, google code or any other page (or w3c) and start creating it! wikipedia is the wrong place for that. mabdul 12:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is off-topic.  Please limit discussions to the editorial content of this article.  Rlsheehan (talk) 12:49, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time for free standards? 

message: What about Qin Shi Huangdi's standardization of everything from wheel axle sizes to the Chinese Orthography? Or the Indus Valley Civilization's (IVC) impressive standardized octal-decimal system of weights and measures, or the IVC's invention of interchangable parts (if I recall the latter correctly); these developments set a standard (no pun intended) that would not be surpassed until French Revolution and the Metric System and the 12th century Venitian Arsenal, respectively; so, why are they not mentioned? Or, for that matter, Teotihuacan's mass-produced thin-orange ware ceramics?
自教育 (talk) 17:22, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You should create a "Pre-Modern Standards Organizations" section to the article and add that content.  I think that would be fantastic contribution, just PLEASE add references and attributions.  There is SO much psuedo-science around historical information like this that you will want to link your additions to some reputable sources.  Thanks!I look forward to seeing more about that- very interesting!  Alex Jackl (talk) 15:27, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Premodern Standards Organizations?

message: Since there was no reference and it was a value judgement I took out the comment about the affected users of standards organizations being a "wide-base".  I know of standards that target very narrow and specialized interests so I don't think it is accurate.  Alex Jackl (talk) 15:30, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wide-Base of affected users"?