Talk:Standardization

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I haven't been able to find a clear definition of what a standard is, but ISO certainly produces standards. On the other hand, W3C only produces recommendations, which may be submitted to standards bodies. W3C never claims to produce standards! The reason may be that W3C is a consortium - but I guess you need a lawyer to tell the difference. Yaronf 22:54 Mar 12, 2003 (UTC)

(Better late than never?) Since this article is linked from ones such as Internet Explorer, I have gone ahead and added a paragraph to clarify that the standards that govern the Internet tend to be de facto, and that the W3C and IETF, among others, intentionally call their publications by names other than "standard" so as not to conflict with ISO, IEC, etc. - mjb 03:55, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The source for the military (NATO) definition is http://www.nato.int/docu/stanag/aap006/aap6.htm -80.133.100.144 00:02, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

1 standards
2 Language standardisation
3 Definition of de facto and de jure
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[edit] standards

To me, standards are just an attempt to organize things. Maybe I'm using the wrong word, but ultimelly I've always seem standardization as a way to set rules for better organizing anything by grouping into categories and trying to make it clear and common.

For example cable standards (RCA, etc), TV standards (Pal-M, NTSC), internet standards (HTTP) all fit in that description.

Anyway, maybe I'm thinking in one concept and using the wrong word, but I still couldn't find a better (english) word for it. Also haven't looked too deep yet... :P

I'm quite surprised to see some articles in wikipedia where it goes way too technical in one field instead of the generic aspect view of it. I'd say this is one.

--Cacumer 19:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Language standardisation

Anyone? - FrancisTyers 23:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Natural language standardisation: no specific standard. It "emerges from culture" and are compiled/consolidated into well-acepted Grammars, Dictionaries (ortography tradictions and/or country-level standards), and Style guides, and perhaps a little of "country-oficial normative principles". Very very rare (remember only Esperanto) start a natural language with a standard, and to fix a unique "oficial reference standard".
Formal language standardisation: like any other standard, need a Standards organization to fix it.

-- 5 December 2006 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.43.54.214 (talk) 10:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

Yup, I was mostly talking about natural language standardisation, but this page doesn't cover it. Care to do an article? :) - Francis Tyers · 11:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of de facto and de jure

I found the definition of de facto and de jure with regards to Standardisation that is given in this page to be at odds with a number of other sources. The impression given here is that de jure standards are ones that are used due to legal contract, whereas in other places (for example in a paper by Erik Duval entitled "Learning Technology Standardization: Making Sense of it all" [1]) de jure standards are those that are created by entities such as ISO and may or may not have mandated use associated with them. Duval also lists Microsoft Office as a de facto standard, illustrative of the issue that things that we sometimes call "standard" are often not necessarily "bringing benefits without hurting competition". This point might more correctly be associated with "Open standardisation". --JBrusey 23:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)