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Ivan Vendrov and Anders Sandberg compile history's most effective technical and governance committees, from Bourbaki to the IETF

Nominations include ISO container standardizers and military general staffs.

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ivan@IvanVendrov#1723inTech

@robinhanson - general staffs in successful modern militaries - bourbaki math group - some of the ISO committees especially the one that standardized the shipping container

Robin Hanson@robinhanson

Missing book: Glorious Committees of History, on great committees that accomplished great things as committees.

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Anders Sandberg@anderssandberg

@robinhanson The IETF / RFC process. The King James Bible companies. The Napoleonic Code drafting commission. The Unicode Consortium, W3C, IEEE 802 (Ethernet, WiFi), ISO, CCITT/ITU. The MAUD Committee. The Swiss Federal Council.

Robin Hanson@robinhanson

Missing book: Glorious Committees of History, on great committees that accomplished great things as committees.

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