How so? Are you suggesting that the guys at the top are going to suddenly start caring about these things because there is a standards body that their employees belong to which says so? Or are you saying that the employees are going to refuse to do things that contradict code maintained by the standards body?The second, leading to the first, which then naturally leds to the third. The AMA, APA, and many others operate this way. Very effectively. Journals need to buy in, schools do, and eventually employers and licensing bodies.
This is not really a new concept, just new for the increasingly unacceptable Wild West or software. Software is not a frontier anymore, it’s the biggest thing going, in our medical devices, cars, banks, etc. it is time to grow up.