The commission, and national technical standards setting body, the Organization of Scientific Area Committees, may be able to render forensics more transparent – the commission could for example improve pre-trial discovery rules and judges could demand more from forensic practitioners, prosecutors and defense counsel.
"The F.B.I.'s ability to have such broad reach over technical standard-setting was never anticipated in the 1994 act".
Examples of such organizations include: "regional institutions; multilateral alliances and security groups; standing consultative mechanisms; self-selecting clubs; ad hoc coalitions; issue-specific arrangements; transnational professional networks; technical standard-setting bodies; and global action networks" (Patrick 2014, p. 59).
An approach I find useful amidst the rapidity and constancy of technical innovation is to ask a standard set of questions.
Our data demonstrate that the technical capabilities of ICWs meet or exceed the standard set by NIR fluorescent WBs.
Over the last few months the World Wide Web Consortium, an international group that sets voluntary technical standards for the Web, has been working with representatives from companies like Microsoft, Google and Nielsen, along with academics, privacy advocates, legislators and digital advertising groups, to define the technical standard of Do Not Track.
They just wish, they say, the device wasn't setting the technical standard for how music gets made.
Technical standards can be set to professionalize the practitioners.
The appeals court threw out a jury's finding that Rambus had committed fraud while working with a technical standards body that set standards for the memory chips used in the world's computers.
After the machine's release in 1981, IBM quickly set the technical standard for the PC industry, and MS-DOS likewise pushed out competing operating systems.
RIM also set a high technical standard for security that neither Apple nor makers of Android phones have yet to match.
