ISO moves forward on E-Discovery standard.

• Position: E-DISCOVERY

A technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has approved moving ahead with a standard for e-discovery, as reported last month in Law Technology News. The official title for the standard is ISO/IEC 27050: Information Technology--Security Techniques--Electronic Discovery.

Once completed, the new guidance standard will provide an overview of e-discovery and electronically stored information, define terminology, and address the technological and process challenges associated with e-discovery. This will be the first release in what's expected to become a multipart standard that provides requirements as well as guidance.

The new standard will reportedly incorporate elements from the U.S. Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot...