🚀 go-pugleaf

I just read Erik Naggums insights in the position of ISO in this world
with great interest, but one question is still open for me:

Who are the people responsible for technical decisions in the standards making
process? How are they selected? How is guaranteed, that they represent the
creme-de-la-creme of academic and industrial experts? Is everything organized
more in a democratic or aristocratic way? If it is intended to be a democratic
process, how can highly motivated independent people (e.g. like me ;-)
have influence on the standardisation process without being employed in
the marketing department of a huge company? Is it really a democratic process
if my hobby of reading ISO documents is nearly as expensive for a student
as drug abuse (as Erik Naggum wrote a few weeks ago :-)?

Markus

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