Red Light: The Most Recognized and Best Practiced International Standard (Hardcover)

Synopsis
Exploiting the Benefits of the World's Most Recognized and Best Practiced Standards. There is one standard that is recognized around the world. Children everywhere learn the meaning of this standard early on, often by playing a well-known game. Many recording artists have used this standard in their songs to convey very clear instructions, directions, and the status of a relationship. It is easily identified, it conveys the same clear meaning throughout the world and may be the only international standard not requiring exceptions. Can you guess? This is quite extraordinary considering the fact that ongoing efforts for harmonizing standards can be traced back to 221 BC. The first documented quality standards can be credited to Ch'in Shih-Huang-Ti, the first emperor of China. He established standards and procedures, for what was referred to at the time as the center of the universe, for the construction of roads and axles. Inspection policies and traceability methods were established for construction materials such as the bricks used to build the Great Wall of China. Test procedures were defined by its neighbouring country for validating and rating Samurai swords. Despite gruesome incentives for strict adherence to these ancient standards, not one of theses standards, including all of the most recent standards has achieved the recognition and conformance to a standard as the traffic light. Unfortunately, the goal of one international standard for each discipline may still be a few generations away considering the enormousness, some say, impossible task, of getting everybody to agree on the same thing! Movement towards this goal is very slow and often occurs in a gradual reduction in the number of similar standards before eventually arriving at a single international standard. The international harmonization of many standards can be greatly accelerated and may require less exceptions by exploiting the colors of the only existing standard that has long ago achieved the goals of complete international harmonization, the traffic light. These colors of the traffic light convey the same meaning worldwide and many of the benefits that can be transferred to other standards are found in its simplicity. Simplicity is the shortest distance between an idea and implementation.

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