Standards are one of those anomalies that engineers tend to ignore – other than to reference in their specifications. An interesting question to ask yourself is, “How much do you know regarding the content of any referenced standard?”
Most engineers would have to be brutally honest and answer, “Basically nothing.” Perhaps that is one of the reasons for such limited participation on standard committees by design engineers. Is it that most design engineers do not care and they leave the writing of standards to others?