Happy World Standards Day! The International Organization for Standardization has declared today, October 14, to be a celebration of the hundreds of engineering and scientific standards from which we all benefit—everything from the length of a meter to the two-letter country code system. It is a day, in other words, to commemorate cross-national conformance, connection, and collaboration.

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