ISO starts committee on e-discovery.

• Position: E-DISCOVERY - International Organization for Standardization - Brief article

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently established a committee to develop standards for e-discovery processes. Its goal is to define procedures for technology companies, discovery providers, and their clients to follow when handling electronically stored information.

"We're not trying to impose requirements on lawyers or judges. That's not the intention of the activity," Hitachi Data Systems' Eric Hibbard, co-editor of the project and international representative on a U.S. contingent to ISO, told Law.com. "It's really intended to help them sort through some of the technology issues that are really nebulous."

The standards will refer to product auditing and will describe how discovery services and software should operate. They will also cite ISO 9001 quality control...