I'm feeling very standardized today, and so I'm wearing a standard solid navy blue tie on a standard long-sleeve white shirt. Today is World Standards Day, celebrating the power and efficiency of technical standards for measuring “everything” in our lives. "The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy." (from Wikipedia) You'll know exactly what I'm talking about if you recognize the organizations known as ASME, IEC, ISO, ITU, IEEE, IETF, SCC, WCAG, ICWM, ASTM and NIST. And of course the FDA has the IFSS. Sometimes the officially adopted standards seem to interfere with genuine progress, as in the case of higher education accrediting agencies like SACS and HLC (formerly part of NCACS). Yay for standard acronyms!
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