I think you are wrong to project the failings of the C++ committee on ISO as a whole. For H.264/AVC, it was less than 4 years from the first draft to final rat

I think you are wrong to project the failings of the C++ committee on ISO as a whole. For H.264/AVC, it was less than 4 years from the first draft to final ratification. It was a joint effort of ISO and ITU-T. Still, if that's too slow, SMPTE seems to go faster when they start with an existing codec. VC-1 and VC-2 (a profile of Dirac) were both done there.