Standardization is essential to the growth of the IT industry. Within the IT industry, well developed consensus consortia standards should be placed on an equal footing with standards developed by ANSI accredited organizations. The current Federal procurement practices, as mandated by OMB A-119, discourage the use of consortia specifications. This paper concludes with a proposal for a legislative change to permit and encourage Federal use of consortia-created standards in procurement.
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