A relatively new International Standardization Organization committee is developing a consensus product that sets the broad contours of standardization in the field of governance relating to aspects of direction, control and accountability of organizations. The foremost aim of international standardization is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services through the elimination of technical barriers to trade. We find technical barriers to trade (TBT) a growing discussion in the education facility industry; especially in research universities that deal with highly specialized products in laboratories. We see TBT issues show up purchasing regulations for federally-sponsored projects hosted on federally-sponsored facilities.
The strategic business plan of ISO/TC 309 is linked below:
We do not find any public commenting opportunities on this project at the moment — January of every year tends to be a slow time in the standards world — but continue to monitor it through INCITS. We keep this committee’s work products on our International Standards monthly teleconference. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [18-157]
Category: Administration & Management, International, Finance, Academics, Public Policy
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer
Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher who advocated for **absolute sovereignty** as the only way to ensure peace and security in a commonwealth¹². He believed that people in their natural state were in a constant state of war, and that they needed to surrender their rights and freedoms to a strong ruler who could protect them from violence and chaos³⁴. Therefore, Hobbes wanted **larger** government control, as he viewed government primarily as a device for ensuring collective security¹. He justified this by arguing that people consented to the authority of the sovereign in exchange for their safety⁵..
Thomas Hobbes’s philosophy of government is relevant today because it addresses some of the fundamental questions and challenges that modern societies face, such as:
How to justify and limit the authority of the state over its citizens?
How to balance the rights and duties of individuals in a social contract?
How to deal with the threats of violence, anarchy, and civil war?
How to promote peace, security, and cooperation among nations?
Hobbes’s answers to these questions may not be the same as ours, but they can stimulate our thinking and help us evaluate our own assumptions and arguments. Hobbes’s Leviathan is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of political philosophy in the history of Western thought, and it has inspired many thinkers and movements across different disciplines and ideologies.
“Allegoria ed effetti del Buono e del Cattivo Governo” 1338 Ambrogio Lorenzetti
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life
so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert
Education communities are the foundation of every industry in every nation. The United States should have a voice in the development of international management and technology standards that originate from the global standards bodies in Geneva — International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and the International Telecommunications Union. At the moment the voice of US education communities is relatively weak; even with the sustained involvement of Standards Michigan beginning with the original University of Michigan standards enterprise described in our ABOUT.*
Owing to relationships with scholars and researchers in other nations that is common in academic communities we collaborate with many universities in other nations. We feature their research when appropriate; all of it worthy of admiration. Our primary involvement is with US Technical Advisory Groups administered by the American National Standards Institute. Of the projects listed below we are actively involved in meetings, gathering data and marking up drafts. There are other projects that are nascent, dormant, rejected , abandoned or consolidated with other titles. If the basis of the standardization project has merit; the idea will ultimately find its proper place.
Owing to copyright restrictions we are unable to post specifics on many of them but we are happy to provide a status check during our periodic Global standards colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
*S. Joe Bhattia, Chairman of the American National Standards Institute, describes that condition at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business:
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The American National Standards Institute is the Global Secretariat for ISO Technical Committee 260 (ISO/TC 260); organized to develop policy templates for standardization solutions that improve management of the workforce in any nation; in any sector or industry. These human resource management standards offer broad, evidence-based guidance to individuals with people management responsibilities, whether formally or informally assigned, in organizations for the benefit of both internal and external stakeholders.
Gleaned from inputs from human resource experts globally, these products are designed to provide guidance on key HR functions in support of its workforce and its management, and sustainable organizational performance. TC/260 is focused on the following tasks:
• Ensuring wide market relevance of its HRM standards. • Facilitating international business. • Providing guidance on professional standards of practice. • Facilitating measurement, comparability and consistency of HR practice with the aim of transparent benchmarking. • Improving internal processes. • Enabling organizations to better achieve optimal organizational outcomes with improved management of human capital
The original University of Michigan user-interest advocacy enterprise was participating member in this project* but that engagement was interrupted suddenly in October 2016 (See ABOUT). We have since picked up where we left off with the same people collaborating with Standards Michigan. ANSI remains the global Secretariat.
We maintain this project on the standing agenda of both our Global and our Human Resource colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
“I am sorry that my job is getting in the way of your learning. I hope that the time you gain can be productively used in employment so that you can pay for your college education”
Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job – McSweeney’s https://t.co/TDhIsAkXau
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Lee S. Webster, Richard Robben
ANSI Contacts: Michelle Deane (mdeane@ansi.org)
US TAG Contacts: Lorelei Carobolante, Jim Lewis
*We left off just as the ISO/TS 30411:2018, Human resource management-Quality of hire metric (QoH) standard was rolling out. The QoH was, and still is a performance metric for talent acquisition teams, critical for determining the effectiveness of the recruitment process and has a consequential impact on an organization’s performance. The QoH structure is intended to be scalable to the needs of any organization regardless of size, industry or sector and is relevant to people with an interest in workforce planning, organizational design and development, talent management succession planning, recruitment, and human capital reporting. Read more about ISO/TS 30411:2018 on ISO’s news site, and access it on the ANSI Web Store.
Civilization has historically flourished around rivers and major waterways. Mesopotamia, the so-called cradle of civilization, was situated between the major rivers Tigris and Euphrates; the ancient society of the Egyptians depended entirely upon the Nile. Rome was also founded on the banks of the Italian river Tiber. Large metropolises like Rotterdam, London, Montreal, Paris, New York City, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Tokyo, Chicago, and Hong Kong owe their success in part to their easy accessibility via water and the resultant expansion of trade. Islands with safe water ports, like Singapore, have flourished for the same reason. In places such as North Africa and the Middle East, where water is more scarce, access to clean drinking water was and is a major factor in human development.*
With this perspective, and our own “home waters” situated in the Great Lakes, we are attentive to water management standardization activity administered by International Organization Standardization Technical Committee 224 (ISO TC/224). The scope of the committee is multidimensional; as described in the business plan linked below:
Water-related management standards define a very active space; arguably, as fast-moving a space as electrotechnology. The ISO TC/224 is a fairly well accomplished committee with at least 16 consensus products emerging from a 34 nations led by Association Française de Normalisation (@AFNOR) as the global Secretariat and 34 participating nations. The American Water Works Association is ANSI’s US Technical Advisory Group administrator to the ISO.
We do not advocate the user interest in this standard at the moment but encourage educational institutions with resident expertise — either on the business side or academic side of US educational institutions — to participate in it. You are encouraged to communicate directly with Paul Olson at AWWA, 6666 W. Quincy Avenue, Denver, CO 80235, Phone: (303) 347-6178, Email: polson@awwa.org.
The work products of TC 224 (and ISO 147 and ISO TC 282) are also on the standing agendas of our Water, Global and Bucolia colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting, open to everyone.
We find a few ANSI-accredited financial service standards developers with meaningful effect upon #TotalCostofOwnership of the real assets of the education industry; though consortia* are the rule, rather than the exception. Education community use of public money requires rigorous oversight; with some of the nuttiest party/counterparty regimes imaginable.
That much said we find that the existing suite of financial service standards coming from Geneva are too high level to have direct perceptible effect on money flows through the $300 billion education facility industry. Still, the best practice originating from ISO administration are noteworthy as prospective policy templates.
Vocabulary, instrument lexicon and data exchange issues are important; especially for a global industry (CLICK HERE for ISO TC/68 titles).
We limit our interest to the arcane and rather dreary world of tax-free bonds that school districts, colleges and universities rely upon to fund capital improvements and “continuing operations”. We see the prospect of disruption on the horizon as distributed ledger technologies roll out; the topic of our monthly Blockchain teleconferences. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
For obvious reasons, because the finance sector runs on the order of 20 percent of any economy there are many nations involved and a respectable number of published standards.
This section of the ISO catalog may interest business school and/or international studies students. We are happy to point students in the right direction any day during our 11 AM/ET “open office hours” teleconferences.
Finance staff on the business side of the education industry, who would like to keep pace with the rollout of smart contracts in grant and infrastructure enterprises, are encouraged to communicate directly with Accredited Standards Committee X9, Inc. for more information about the US Technical Advisory Group. Janet Busch is listed as the contact person (janet.busch@x9.org). Our colleagues in other nations interested in participating should communicate directly with Stefan Marinkovic at the ISO Offices in Geneva (marinkovic@iso.org)
We keep all ISO standards on the standing agenda of our International and Finance standards monthly teleconferences. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.
Issue: [16-135]
Category: Finance, International, Blockchain
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Richard Robben
“The Renaissance of Burnley” Nicole Burnley | University College of London
In Rome you long for the country;
in the country – oh inconstant! – you praise the distant city to the stars.
— Horace
As cities-within-cities, education communities stakeholders in broad policy formulation of town-gown infrastructure of the emergent #WiseCampus. Since 2014 we have been participants in this project, supporting the original US TAG — the National Fire Protection Association. Last year the NFPA relinquished the US TAG role in this project but we are on “standby” and ready to resume activity when a replacement US TAG is found.
Consensus documents emerging from ISO/TC 268 tend to be large, fast-moving and highly interdependent. Drafts for US stakeholder comment and balloting arrive frequently as new workgroups are spawned from the core ISO TC/268 committees.
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We are happy to review these documents with education communities in other participating countries involved in this project online during our Hello World! and Zoning colloquia; the next shown on our CALENDAR. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
ANSI seeks a US Technical Advisory Group Administrator
31 July 2021:
No new consultations released to ANSI.
15 July 2021:
No new consultations released to ANSI.
20 May 2021:
No new consultations. NFPA has relinquished its role as US TAG and it is likely that ANSI is busy either finding a new TAG or assuming leadership of the TAG role itself.
9 March 2021:
No consultations issued by NFPA, the US TAG
9 December 2020:
ISO/CD 37108 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Business Districts – Guidance for Practical Local Implementation of ISO 37101. Ballots due 8 January
2 November 2020:
ISO/DIS 37106:2018/DAM 1 Sustainable Cities and Communities — Guidance on Establishing Smart City Operating Models for Sustainable Communities – Amendment 1. Comments due November 23rd
13 October 2020:
Smart community infrastructures — Data exchange and sharing for community infrastructures based on geo‐information. Comments due November 3.
2 October 2020:
ISO/CD 37109 Sustainable Development and Communities – Practical Guidance for Project Developers – Meeting ISO 37101 Framework. Comments due October 21
10 September 2020:
ISO / CD 37110 Sustainable Cities and Communities — Management Guidelines of Open Data for Smart Cities and Communities — Part 1: Overview and General Principles. Comments due September 29
Holidays in France
No drafts open for comment
5 August 2020:
ISO/PWI 37111 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Small and Medium Sized Cities – Guidance for Practical Implementation of ISO 37101. Comments due August 19th
15 July 2020:
ISO/DIS 37164 Smart Community Infrastructures – Smart Transportation Using Fuel Cell LRT. Comments due July 27th.
ISO / FDIS 37165 Smart Community Infrastructure – Guidance on Smart Transportation with the Use of Digitally Processed Payment (d-payment. Comments due August 5th
8 July 2020:
No drafts open for comment
15 June 2020:
ISO/FDIS 37163 Smart Community Infrastructures – Guidance on Smart Transportation for Parking Lot Allocation in Cities. Comments due June 22nd
7 May 2020:
ISO / DIS 37167 Smart Community Infrastructures – Smart Transportation for Energy Saving Operation by Slowly Driving Intentionally. Comments due June 5th.
1 May 2020:
ISO/CD 37166 Smart Community Infrastructures – Urban Data Integration Framework for Smart City Planning. Comments due May 21st.
21 April 2020:
No drafts open for comment
19 March 2020:
ISO/NP Reserved 37180 Smart community infrastructures — Guidance on smart transportation with QR code identification/authentification in transportation and its related/additional services Comments due April 9th
11 March 2020:
ISO/ DIS 37106 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Guidance on Establishing Smart City Operating Models for Sustainable Communities – Amendment 1. Comments due by March 18th
3 February 2020:
ISO/FDIS 37160 Smart Community Infrastructure – Electric Power Infrastructure – Measurement Methods for the Quality of Thermal Power Infrastructure and Requirements for Plant Operations and Management. Comments due by February 17th
13 January 2020 Update:
No exposure drafts open for comment at this time.
26 December 2019 Update:
ISO/FDIS 37162 Smart Community Infrastructures – Smart Transportation for Newly Developing Areas. Comments due 9 January 2020
4 December 2019 Update:
ISO/DIS 37165 Smart Community Infrastructures – Guidance on Smart Transportation by Non-cash Payment for Fare/Fees in Transportation and its Related or Additional Services. Comments due 18 December 2019
WG4 TR— Data exchange and sharing for community infrastructure based on Geoinformation. Comments due 18 December 2019
WG4 TR Smart Community Infrastructures Report of Pilot Project on the Application of SC1 Deliverables. Comments due 18 December 2019
4 November 2019 Update:
ISO/NP 37169 Smart Community Infrastructures –Smart Transportation by Run-Through Train/Bus Operation in/between Cities. Comments due November 20th
ISO/NP 37168 Smart Community Infrastructures – Guidance on Smart Transportation for Autonomous Shuttle Services Using Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicles (eCAVs). Comments due November 20th
ISO/FDIS 37155 Framework for Integration and Operation of Smart Community Infrastructures – Recommendations for Considering Opportunities and Challenges from Interactions in Smart Community Infrastructures from Relevant Aspects through the Life Cycle. Comments due November 20th
7 October 2019 Update:
ISO/FDIS 37123 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Indicators for Resilient Cities. Comments due October 29th
25 September 2019 Update:
ISO/NP 24609 Smart Community Infrastructures – Data and Framework of Digital Technology Apply in Smart City Infrastructure Governance. Comments due October 3rd
10 September 2019 Update:
ISO/FDIS 37105 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Descriptive Framework for Cities and Communities. Comments due September 19th
2 August 2019 Update:
ISO/CD 37164 Smart community infrastructures — Smart transportation using fuel cell light rail transportation. Comments due August 16th
ISO/DIS 37163 Smart Community Infrastructures – Guidance on Smart Transportation for Parking Lot Allocation in Cities. Comments due August 19th
1 August 2019 Update:
ISO/NP 37167 Smart Community Infrastructures — Smart Transportation for Energy Saving by Intentionally Slowly Driving. Comments due August 12th
July 28, 2019 Update:
ISO/CD 37155-2 Framework for Integration and Operation of Smart Community Infrastructures- Part 2: Holistic Approach and the Strategy for Development, Operation and Maintenance of Smart Community Infrastructures. Comments due August 1st.
June 25, 2019 Update:
ISO / DIS 37160 Smart Community Infrastructure – Measurement Methods for Quality of Thermal Power Station Infrastructure and Requirements for Plant Operations and Management. Comments due July 12th
June 5, 2019 Update:
No commentable documents at this time.
May 22, 2019 Update:
ISO/DIS 37161 Smart Community Infrastructures – Guidance on Smart Transportation for Energy Saving in Transportation Services in Cities.Comments due June 5th
May 16, 2019 Update:
No commentable documents at this time. We walk through all transportation-related standards action on May 16th.
April 29, 2019 Update:
ISO NP 37166 New Work Item Proposed: Smart Community Infrastructures. Specification of Multi-Source Urban Data Integration for Smart City Planning. Comments due May 14th
March 14, 2019 Update:
ISO/FDIS 37122 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Indicators for Smart Cities | Comments due April 2nd.
February 19, 2019 Update:
ISO/FDIS 37104 Sustainable Cities and Communities – Transforming Our Cities – Guidance for Practical Local Implementation of ISO 37101 | Comments due February 15th
ISO NP 23944 (N330) New Work Item Proposed: Smart Community Infrastructures – Guidance on smart Transportation by Non-Cash payment for Fare/Fees in Transportation and its Related or Additional Services | Comments due February 15th
Ballot for ISO NP 23943 (N328) New Work Item Proposed: Smart Community Infrastructures – Smart Transportation using Fuel Cell LRT | Comments due February 15th
January 24, 2019 Update:
ISO/DIS 37123 Sustainable cities and communities — Indicators for resilient cities. Ballots due February 8th
Some amount of the commentable material cannot be distributed and must be viewed online (a chronic problem). Click in to any of our daily 11 AM EST teleconferences if you would like to read and mark up with comments.
December 18, 2018 Update:
No commentable documents at this time
November 1, 2018 Update:
ISO / DIS 37155 Framework for Integration and Operation of Smart Community Infrastructures – Part 1: Opportunities and Challenges from Interactions in Smart Community Infrastructures from all Aspects through the Life Cycle.
* Owing to copyright restrictions you must send an email to bella@standardsmichigan.com to access to the documents
14-101 ISO 268 Item ISO IEC 17021 Public Review Draft
September 18, 2018 Update:
Comments are due September 24th on the documents linked below:
14-101 ISO WD TS 37107 SEPT 2018 Sustainable Cities
14-101 ISO CD 37160 SEPT 2018 Sustainable Cities
September 16, 2018 Update:
The US TAG convened at NFPA Headquarters last this week. Since some of the material is copyright protected, we welcome education facility professionals to click in any day at 11 AM to review the commenting opportunities open to US stakeholders generally, and education industry professionals specifically.
Draft document now open for public review: Smart community infrastructures — Guidance on smart transportation for allocation of parking lots in cities. (ISO Stage 20.20) Comments are due at NFPA on September 13th
US TAG meets at NFPA Headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts September 12 and 13. Mike Anthony will be in attendance.
August 2018 Update:
Draft document now open for public review: Sustainable development in communities — Indicators for Smart Cities. Comments are due at NFPA on August 27th.
Draft document now open for public review: Guidelines on Data Exchange and Sharing for Smart Community Infrastructures. Comments are due at NFPA on August 24th
One draft document is now open for public review: Smart community infrastructures — Smart transportation for rapid transit in/between large city zones and the surrounding areas (ISO/DIS 37159).Comments are due at NFPA on August 7th.
July 2018 Update:
No new business items received from ISO Genève. US TAG will meet in at NFPA headquarters, September 12-13, 2018
June 2018 Update:
No new business items received from ISO Genève. The US TAG is planning a September on-site meeting at NFPA Headquarters in Boston.
May 2018 Update:
Balloting was completed by the US TAG on proposed ISO/FDIS 37120 Sustainable Development in Communities – Indicators for City Services and Quality of Life
April 2018 Update:
At the 2017 Paris meeting of TC/268, the UK suggested that it would be helpful to develop an overall maturity model for cities, drawing on the framework set out by SC1 in ISO/DIS 37153. The TC agreed, and WG4 was asked to work up proposals.
At its Berlin meeting in May, WG4 made good progress and recommended a way forward. But in plenary discussion with other working groups, there was concern that WG4 was moving too quickly and on too narrowly‐focused a basis
The purpose of a recent release by ISO TC/268 — an outline of city “maturity models” — is to respond to those concerns, proposing a broader framework for future work in this area across TC/268
An explanation of the broad contours of parent standard — with the Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR Group) as the Secretariat — is described in the videoclip below:
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Modern dentistry is much greater in scope, more complex and has a greater scientific base than ever before. Today’s general practice includes minimal invasive therapies, adhesive aesthetic restorations, complex periodontal care, removable and fixed orthodontics, root canal therapy, minor oral surgery, fixed or removable or implant supported prosthetic treatment. Prevention of oral diseases plays a major role. Furthermore, the dental practice equipment follows ergonomic demands and must today also comply with national or international regulations concering safety and environmental aspects. Infection prevention and control regulations have been considerably tightened, which has direct impact on dental practise. Finally, the dental market is becoming increasingly sophisticated with digital technologies.
The global dental industry market is relatively small in relation to that for health care in general, but it is a lucrative and highly competitive market. The global dental market is estimated for the 2017 –2018 financial year to be worldwide US$31.5 billion. For 2021, the scale of the global dental market is predicted to be around US$37 billion. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the period 2016-2021 is projected to be 5.6 per cent, which represents an annual growth rate of more than US$1.6 billion.
The key benefits already realized or expected from the work of ISO/TC 106 are:
▪ Improvements in the quality of products on the market;
▪ Improvements in the quality of care provided to patients;
▪ Reduction of barriers to trade in a growing international market;
▪ Protection of the health and safety of dental patients, users and the environment;
▪ Uniformity of terminology used in dentistry.
ISO/TC 106 has the following objectives:
▪ To develop international standards that are congruent with the scope of the Committee.
▪ To revise or withdraw all other standards that are the responsibility of TC106 as per ISO
periodic review procedures.
▪ To develop standards that stay current and evolve as the practice of dentistry evolves.
▪ To develop standards that make the best possible use of available scientific data.
▪ To be vigilant in harmonizing standards for similar types of products.
▪ To develop standards based upon function, utilization and safety/environmental requirements
rather than on chemical and/or physical properties.
▪ To ensure that the composition of working groups is balanced and includes the best experts
as well as representation from all stakeholders.
▪ To ensure that vested interests never dictate the development of dental standards.
Despite the name given to this ISO technical committee blockchain and distributed ledger technology are related concepts but they are not exactly the same thing.
• A distributed ledger is a database that is spread across a network of computers or nodes, where each node has a copy of the same database. When a new transaction is made on the network, it is verified by multiple nodes and added to the ledger, which creates a permanent and tamper-evident record of the transaction.
• Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger that uses blocks of transactions that are linked together in a chain. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, which creates an unbreakable link between the blocks. This creates a tamper-evident and secure ledger that is resistant to modification.
While blockchain is a specific type of distributed ledger, not all distributed ledgers use blockchain technology. Other types of distributed ledgers include directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), Hashgraph, Holochain and Cordo.
The key difference between blockchain and distributed ledger technology is that blockchain is a specific type of distributed ledger that uses blocks of transactions that are linked together in a chain, whereas distributed ledger technology refers to any database that is spread across a network of computers or nodes.
“Composition A” 1923 Piet Mondrian
Blockchain technology is changing the financial underpinnings of all economic sectors including the education industry in every nation. Accordingly, the International Standardization Organization has set up a relatively new technical committee — ISO/TC 307, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies — to meet the need for standardization in this area by providing internationally agreed ways of working with blockchain and distributed ledger technology to improve security, privacy and facilitate worldwide use of the technology through the highest possible level of interoperability.
The consensus products emerging TC 307 will be relevant not only to not only education industry trade associations who claim an educational/accreditation mission but to college and university marketing departments that can, and should be interested in the ISO 307 products if for no other reason than to secure their claim to mastery of (in the argot of the moment) the most “woke” technologies for students and parents. The executive summary and global participation map is linked below:
In our 20+ year engagement with ANSI accredited standards-setting organizations; and nearly 20-year involvement in international standards promulgated by the ISO, IEC and ITU, we find early drafts of international standards are fairly dilutive; owing to the need to find agreed-upon definitions and the need to assemble an informed, durable and funded group of subject matter experts that can withstand the long-haul. A few of the focus areas we recommend for leaders of the US #WiseCampus zietgeist are listed below:
Legally binding smart contracts
Interactions between smart contracts in blockchain and distributed ledger technology systems
Discover issues related to interoperability
Guidelines for governance
These are the ongoing focus areas of various committees that appear to contribute to building a foundation for lower (or re-rationalized) costs in the education industry. We keep a weather-eye out for blockchain standard disruption of school district, college and university bond funding mechanisms. The network of stakeholders involved in education facility funding may be an application of blockchain technology that should be investigated. As always, we will try to separate speculative hype from proven, practical approaches to reducing cost.
The public working area identifies committee activity during October-November; characteristic of early-stage ISO product development. US stakeholders — which should include education communities — should communicate directly with INCTIS.
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Standards Australia is the Global Secretariat. Our US colleagues are encouraged to communicate directly with ANSI’s ISO Team and/or the Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) 1101 K Street NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005, Phone: (202) 626-5737. This standard is on the standing agenda of each of our Blockchain,Global, Infotech and Finance colloquia. See our CALENDAR.
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwBpic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
