Title
STANDARD SETTING AND DIPLOMACY
Author
Andrew
Updegrove
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2004)
(Original Publish Date: 2004)
Abstract
The United Nations has a multi-billion dollar budget and too often fails to create consensus around the most vital issues of the day, while the global standard setting infrastructure operates on a shoe string, and maintains hundreds of thousands of widely adopted standards. Perhaps there's something that the diplomats can learn from the engineers.