At 16:21 -0700 2002/04/9, Ma Be wrote: >Hello, folks, > >Please allow me to submit a new idea before you. This whole debate >I and Jim have been having on SI frameworking got me thinking. > >How about we focus our efforts on getting countries around the world >to yield authority on the issue of system of units to the "local" >standards bodies, which, evidently, in turn, would be subject to the >highest *international* authority on the issue, BIPM, for example >(given that this is a science issue and science has NO frontiers, >issues of sovereignty should not be a concern). In other words, >when it comes to the use of units of measurements, ALL stakeholders >in the society should use what such authoritative bodies would >stipulate as "legal".
Certainly a good idea, Marcus, but I doubt that the BIPM (or, rather, the CGPM) is the appropriate body. The Treaty of Metre does not give its executive bodies any authority in spreading the Metric System or SI. It is more the mission of the OIML, the International Organization for Legal Metrology. See http://www.oiml.org/ I am not sure however that the OIML has more power than the CGPM... Louis
