^^Sudzie, I was just about to use IEEE, which is one organization that regulates technological standards ranging from "Wi-Fi" to integrated circuits, to make roughly the same point. It's a worldwide organization that is not tied to any single government and seems to mostly rely on the open market for enforcement. It works because I can make a Bluetooth-enabled tablet, you can make a speaker system that can be remote-controlled with Bluetooth and provide an app, and both devices will work together regardless of who manufactured it. Companies that follow widely agreed-upon standards stand a better chance of succeeding; those that go off on their own path tend to fall by the wayside. I won't deny that there are lousy products on the market that theoretically follow these standards, either, like a lot of the junk you see in the technology department at Wal-Mart that people buy because it's cheap.
But enough about IEEE. It would most certainly help our cause to form a standards organization. The challenge will be getting enough independent brewers and/or large companies on board to make it stick, along with publicizing, "We're going to be putting together agreed-upon standards to ensure that our brews are the highest possible quality, regardless of the exact recipe or method. Browse our list of members to find a brewer near you." Once we have enough sticking power, the open market should do the rest and weed out the ones who don't follow our standards.