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TC , for example, is tasked with drafting ISO and related quality management standards, and allegedly requires such standards to be written by experts in quality management. These currently include the following subjects:. These people are not elected, and yet are writing text that will impact on standards affecting everything every one of those subjects listed above, and more. In short, Hortensius is drafting Annex SL on behalf of 48 separate trade sectors, and then allowing everyone else to vote on it.

In many cases, the definitions were already written by other committees, long before Hortensius was granted this God-like role. The original drafters of these definitions and requirements must be livid. That will be a lie. Hortensius is literally altering text on his own, and then everyone else is just voting on it. Hortensius also shows nothing but disdain for the input of users who have voted with their wallets to date, and proved that the first attempt was not what they wanted.

ISO has routinely ignored the data. When confronted back in September of with ISO Survey data, here is what he wrote to me red highlighting added by me :. Apart from that the figures have been highly uncertain anyway for a long time. I do not think that there is a clear relationship between market interest in the standards and the way these are developed. Most users that I encounter during training session, seminars etcetera do not have a clue how standards are developed and how they can be involved.

Zoom snapshot of Annex L meeting; Hortensius is top row, second from left. As a result, the majority of users come from a tiny percentage of the 48 possible MSS TCs, most of them from TC representing quality management. ISO essentially shrugs, blaming them for not participating.

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