Standardizing organisations

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...that is, some of the more common ones that relate to computers, electronics and/or everyday things.

• ANSI (American National Standards Institute) [1] [2]

• ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) (but actually international now) [3] [4]

• DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) [5] [6]

• ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) [7] [8]

• ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) [9]

• EIAJ (Electronic Industries Association of Japan)

• IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) [10] [11]

e.g. IEC 60320 (common power connectors), ISO/IEC 646 (ASCII), IEC/DIN 60130 (DIN plugs), ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL99), ISO/IEC 9899 and 14882 (C and C++), ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559 (floating point)

...including IECEE (previously CEE) (IEC System for Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components) [12]

e.g. CEE 7 domestic power plugs (e.g. various in / compatible with various of the types mentioned here); CEE 17, better known as IEC 60309,

• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) [13] [14] (see also IESG)
  • Including RFCs

• ISO (International Organization for Standardization) [15] [16]

a bunch of tecnical ones are joint committees with IEC, which then use the same numbering, in which case you'll often see ISO/IEC number

• ITU (International Telecommunication Union), split into:
  • ITU-T (Telecommunication, and previously CCITT) [17] [18]
  • ITU-R (Radiocommunication, and previously CCIR) [19] [20]. Related to media, e.g. TV/video signals, audio noise measurements, and such. See e.g. [21]
  • ITU-D (Development, and also known as BDT) [22] [23]

• JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards), Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) [24], [25]

• JSA (Japanese Standards Association) [26]

• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
  • Including FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) [27] [28]

• W3C (also W3, previously W3O) [29] [30]

with various things now in WHATWG's hands