ISO15489 launch 2001: The International Standards Organisation Records Management Standard ISO15489.1 and its Guidelines, ISO TR 15489.2 were published in October 2001 after three years’ hard work by an international group of private and public sector recordkeepers. The task, in which Michael Steemson joined as a member of the Australian delegation to the creating ISO sub-committee TC46/SC11, was fraught with pressures that few of the authors envisaged when they started the job at their first working meeting in Athens in 1998.