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TMB

The ISO Technical Management Board, or TMB, is a high-level bureaucratic body within ISO that oversees the activities of all standards development committees, including TC 176.

Within the universe of THE AUDITOR, the TMB is led by Dick Hortensius of the Netherlands.

The TMB is responsible for the “Annex SL” text which is forcibly included in ISO 9001, negating the need for either TC 176 or the US TAG 176 to participate at all in standards development.  They hold ultimate power in the ISO standards development world, and demand loyalty upon pain of death. The leadership of TC 176 is terrified of the TMB.

These characters are based on real public figures, and satirized for the purposes of humor and social commentary. The depiction within the strip is not to be construed as based on fact.

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