Roger Huffadine

WORCESTER

CTO

You have to understand the pressure that individuals come under from all sorts of directions when they are working on these committees. I used to chair an international standards committee and regularly saw the effects of, for example, a world leader in proprietary software leaning on a major telecoms equipment manufacturer to remove consensus within the committee and demand that words be changed to favour the supposedly non-involved third party. I know of instances of people being in fear of their jobs over the issue of toning down perfectly accurate words.