How to Write Your Own ISO Standard

You too can write your own ISO standard! Here are the steps: (1)
Download the ISO/IEC Directives Part 2 Rules for the structure and
drafting of International Standards. These give the general editorial
guidelines. Read it all. (2) Download the documentation for the XML
schema for ISO Standards, which is in Technical Report 9357-11.
(3) Download the Open Source schemas and stylesheets are available
at SourceForge and embody a lot of the rules of the ISO/IECDirectives
Part 2; install and configure your production environment to use them.
(4) Try to follow these [good-] writing guidelines... (5) Write your
draft (6) Track down IP issues to the best of your ability; also, try
to have reviewed it for Internationalization, Security and Accessibility
issues... (7) Decide whether it should be an ISO/IEC International
Standard, an ISO/IEC Internation Standard through fast-track, a Publicly
Available Specification, an ISO/IEC Technical Report, a National Standard,
a Consortium Standard, or just something on your own website... (8)
When a draft is produced, contact the various technical committees
around the world to help answer questions... (9) Ask the committee to
ask ISO to get the standard added to ISO's free list; a standard that
is not on the WWW is at a total disadvantage. (10) Assuming the vote
on the Final Draft was 'yes', you now have your standard! Congratulations,
that has only taken three years or so. Now you have to commit a little
time over the next few years to maintain it and fix corrections that
come up, and to try to get buy-in from the public. Remember a good
standard is one that meets its particular user's needs, not one that
takes over the world. However, your name won't be in the standard
(unlike W3C or OASIS), or in the bibliographic entries. So don't do it,
or participate on committees, if you want to see your name on Amazon.