TOWER OF BABEL, OR WHY BOTHER ABOUT INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS?

摘要

When Paul Schomer and Susan Blaeser invited me to present a paper in the special session Demystifying Standards at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, November 2011, I decided to take the title of the session rather literally. I asked myself, "What exactly is the mystery of standards?" Paul and Susan asked me to take a non-U.S. point of view on this question. As I started to draft the abstract of my paper, a number of thoughts ran through my mind. This article presents those fragmented thoughts and tries to tie them together.