New York City agreed on Wednesday to codify standards for how homeless families seeking shelter should be treated in exchange for freedom from long-running judicial oversight that has led to millions of dollars in fines and has dictated much of the daily functioning of the city's shelters.
In addition to explicitly guaranteeing the right to shelter, the city agreed to codify standards for determining eligibility, helping the homeless get the documents they needed to prove eligibility and ensuring that they had a safe and appropriate place to go if they were denied shelter.
The navy at that time was the biggest industry and the biggest employer in all of England, and Pepys proved to be brilliant at his job, the first naval administrator to keep accurate and useful records and to codify standards and procedures.
Among their fears about the disabilities convention were that it would codify standards enumerated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child — and therefore United Nations bureaucrats would be empowered to make decisions about the needs of disabled children — and that it could trump state laws concerning people with disabilities.
At its core lay (still classified) guidelines codifying standards for lethal drone strikes.
As part of the process, he said, the city would incorporate codified standards for front-yard gardens.
But once a code of canon law and an administrative infrastructure began to take form, "questionable beliefs could be examined against codified standards," he writes.
James D. Stern, a much-credited film and theater producer whose Endgame Entertainment has provided financial backing for films like "An Education" and "I'm Not There," cautioned that any effort to single out producers who meet codified standards might devalue the equally important but less well-defined contribution of others and, ultimately, make it harder to get some films made.
Maybe half a dozen principles that signatory sites agree to abide by, in return for similarly codified standards of behaviour they expect from their users.
But codifying standards isn't a foolproof approach.
In 1984 the ISO worked with the BIPM and 2 other international organizations to codify a standard International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM).
