Ban corporate employees from standardization committees.

Having “industry representation” participate in standard-setting committees is a an anti-pattern that enables regulatory capture.

While their input is useful to consider, the people deciding on the standard should be unencumbered. Too often these people work directly for the corporate that they are supposed to regulate.

The best committee members are probably professionals who are either retired or are disillusioned with the industry and left.

Startups do not have the access, nor the bandwidth to participate in these regulatory bodies and as such, there is no voice of future or even current competition present at those bodies.

Alternatively, a dedicated (devils’ advocate) pro-competition can be included in those committees with veto rights over standards that close the market to new entrants.