5.7.5. Key Points

Here are some key points to remember:

• Standardization is costly both financially and in terms of effort.
• Once a standard is developed, it must be reviewed regularly to keep it relevant.
• International standards adopted nationally must be rendered into national languages. The question arises as to whether they should be translated or localized.
• Localization raises some important issues for terminology and leads us to re-examine the question what a terminology standard is.