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> > It used to be a rule that ISO was not allowed to start new > work, it was only > > allowed to ratify work submitted by one of its member bodies. > > How long ago was this? Perhaps I'm showing my naivete by > conflating ISO > and ITU. (I'm certainly not alone in that; most folks think of X.xxx > standards as ISO things, viz the ISO seven-layer reference model.) I'm not an expert, but I seem to recall that when ISO started doing SQL work in the 1980s there were objections raised. I believe a lot of the things we know as ISO standards were actually developed in ECMA. Michael Kay
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