Industrywide Voluntary Product Standards (1975) describes the role of voluntary standards and standardization in the U.S. economy.
A further complication, not only but especially in the medical domain, is the general difficulty with standardization in the light of genericity of the standard and specificity of the application scenario.
Tissue-based diagnostic testing is the gold standard for cancer diagnosis and is more and more dependent on increasing process standardization in the anatomic pathology laboratory and on improving laboratory workflows.
At this moment, the standardization in the actual market is not there".
"We are seeing a standardization in the quality and quantity of information," said Agnes de Petigny, head of corporate ratings in Europe for Standard & Poor's.
The challenge faced by the various public interest and commercial efforts is the lack of standardization in the court system that makes it a technical nightmare for those who want to place information online for the public.
Teachers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and government agencies contributed, for example, to standardization in the shape and style of the classroom, types of curricula, and goals for school enrollments.
They said that the agency would "continue its efforts at cost controls and will work expeditiously to seek greater standardization in the administration of such legal costs by the enterprises".
The Energy Department has already begun tackling the lack of standardization in the solar industry, in part through its Solar America Board of Codes and Standards, established under the department's Solar Energy Technologies Program in 2007.
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Google wants everyone to play nicely together – that's part of the appeal behind USB-C standardization in the first place.
