Introduction In July 1987 the plan to create a group that would develop industry-neutral standards was formed. But problem to be tackled was that the MPEG “digital baseband” (see The discontinuity of digital technologies) had to based on international international standards because they had to have global validity. The question then was: where should those standards be developed? The answer is provided by the following sections: Standards describes the 3 international standards organisations; ISO and IEC standards describes the ISO structure and…