Exclude adversaries from international standards bodies and boost U.S. participation

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Printed page 686 21. Department of Commerce

“Reestablish U.S. dominance in international standards. NIST should explore ways to incentivize broader U.S. participation in standards-setting bodies and the exclusion of participants from adversaries like China.”

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Aug 31, 2026 Not started

Nothing found. NIST neither incentivized broader U.S. participation in international standards bodies nor sought the exclusion of participants from adversary states: no standards-participation program, order or Federal Register document in the window does either, and the export-control side of the same question — the license exceptions that let U.S. firms sit in standards bodies with listed Chinese entities — was left untouched (see #1861).

No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Negative search: a jq pass over all 52 in-window NIST Federal Register records (advisory-committee meetings, information collections, two consortium notices, three deregulatory rules and two AI requests for information — none about international standards participation); Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "international standards" restricted to the Commerce Department slug and for "standards-setting" + participation; the DOC/NIST Unified Agenda slice (two RINs, both removals); and presidential-actions.ndjson for standards.

The five in-window AI executive orders (14179 of 2025-01-23, 14277, 14355, 14365 and 14409) set AI policy and none of them addresses standards-body membership. NIST’s AI work in the window is the Artificial Intelligence Consortium (2026-05-29) and two RFIs on AI agent security and the National Vulnerability Database — domestic technical programs, not international standards diplomacy.

Action: restrict
Object: participation of adversaries in international standards-setting bodies
ID: 1911