It really defines our role within government. Fundamentally, the private sector, and I should be clear that this is mostly not-for-profits, but the standards organizations out there are well-developed. They're well recognized and they can take up most of the interests of industry and consumer organizations, other interests outside.
Our unique role is as the federal government, where we're the only one that is within the federal government, where the federal government has a need to regulate something, to ensure a safety health issue that is not being taken up outside. We are the one that the federal departments come to see, for instance, on flotation devices, the building code. There are many areas in the building code and it can be very specific. Glass sliding doors, for example, I was reading from my list yesterday about glass sliding doors for patio door safety. There's just not a market out there that is looking. It's too diffuse, that market, too diverse, so the National Research Council, the owners of the building code have come to ask us to put together the standard for that.
We occupy a niche and that niche is really around the federal requirement for standards, as opposed to standards that are not created elsewhere because either they're too specific or there's not a lot of trade benefit to it. What drives industry to get a standard is to be able to do business. So in our case it's about standards for things and products that we need or that there's a public interest in looking into.