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Standards expert Jan van den Beld now blogging

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Jan van den Beld, a long time member of the standards community and former Secretary General of Ecma international is now blogging: https://janvandenbeld.blogspot.com/2007/11/starting-my-blog.html

I had the privilege of working with Jan last year when we proposed the creation TC45 and then over the next year within TC45 worked with all the other members to create ECMA 376. He was a huge help in getting the group going as some of us had more development experience and not as much standards experience.

It will be great to follow along on Jan's blog to get his perspective on standards. Here's a bit of a blurb from his blog:

My main goals are to write about ICT standardization, its processes, its objectives – what it can do and what it cannot do – the players and their roles, reasons to go for an international standard, the structure of global standards bodies, the liaison between Ecma and ISO, etc., in short about my more than 20 years of experience in the global standardization world, not as a technician – I'm just an engineer in physics from Delft University in The Netherlands who worked mainly in software – but as a "bureaucrat" (as many people call such type of jobs like mine at Ecma).

It's great to have him as a member of the blogging community.

-Brian

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    Corrections: First sentence " ...is not blogging: http://janvandenbeld.blogspot.com/2007/11/starting-my-blog.html" I think you meant " ...is now blogging" :-)

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    I think Brian is just an admirer of Rene Magritte. Gareth

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    Wu MingShi Oops, good catch. Gareth That was not a mistake. -Brian

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2007
    Keeping up with standards, regulations and best practices is incredibly important to solution providers trying to get the right business technology solutions implemented for clients, but it’s not always easy to find a real “voice” for standards (as in, a human being delivering information about them).  This could be a good and rare chance for many to get a human voice that represents the industry!