Originally Posted by
Keygrip
It's an "aside", yeah - but whilst I'm 100% behind the idea of the test (and am likely to be involved conducting the actual tests after their implementation), it's a bit ironic that an American company is somehow involved in standards of radio telephony.
Not at all. English (or American English, if you will) is the international language of aviation because America was where the first powered, heavier-than-air aircraft flew (at least according to historical convention).
For similar reasons, in international telephony, the United States is country code '+1', because the telephone was invented there (albeit by a Scottish-Canadian, but then, we Scots invented most stuff).
Similarly, having invented the Postage Stamp, the United Kingdom is the only country in the world that does not have to state the name of the country on its postage stamps.