Who makes the standards

There are many institutes that generate and provide standards across the world. There are standard bodies at the regional or country level; also, there are bodies at the inter-national level. Based on the area of operations, standard bodies are formed by the governments, professional institutes or industry consortiums. These standard bodies sometime also function as regulators. In India there is a standard body under the Government of India, which is called Bureau of Indian Standard or simply BIS (www.bis.org.in). A standards process include following steps: 1. Consensus on a proposed standard by a group or 'consensus body' that includes representatives from materially affected and interested parties. 2. Broad-based public review and comment on draft standards. 3. Consideration of and response to comments submitted by voting members of the relevant consensus body and by public review comm enters. 4. Incorporation of approved changes into a draft standard. 5. Right to appeal by any participant that believes that due process principles were not sufficiently respected during the standards development in accordance with the ANSI-accredited procedures of the standards developer.