ABSTRACT

This chapter is contributed by Stephen P. Oksala, Director of Corporate Standards Management for Unisys Corporation. He has also served as as Director of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This paper was the winner of the 1996 World Standards Day Paper Competition sponsored by the Standards Engineering Society (SES). It first appeared in Standards Engineering 48, no. 6, November/December 1996, the publication of the SES and later republished in ISO Bulletin in 1997. It is reprinted with permission of both the author and the SES.