Standardizing organisations

This article/section is a stub — probably a pile of half-sorted notes and is probably a first version, is not well-checked, so may have incorrect bits. (Feel free to ignore, or tell me)

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

• DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) [1] [2]

• ISO (International Organization for Standardization) [3] [4]

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

• IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) [5] [6]

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)

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

• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
  • Including FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) [9] [10]

• ANSI (American National Standards Institute) [11] [12]

• ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) (but actually international now) [13] [14]

• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) [15] [16] (see also IESG)
  • Including RFCs

• W3C (also W3, previously W3O) [17] [18]

with various things now in WHATWG's hands

• ISO (International Organization for Standardization) [19] [20]

• ITU (International Telecommunication Union), split into:
  • ITU-T (Telecommunication, and previously CCITT) [21] [22]
  • ITU-R (Radiocommunication, and previously CCIR) [23] [24]. Related to media, e.g. TV/video signals, audio noise measurements, and such. See e.g. [25]
  • ITU-D (Development, and also known as BDT) [26] [27]

• JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards), Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) [28], [29]

• EIAJ (Electronic Industries Association of Japan)

• JSA (Japanese Standards Association) [30]