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ORGANIZATIONS--Standards
- ACM-TSC: Association for Computing Machinery Technical Standards Committee (http://www.acm.org/tsc)
- AIW: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) Implementers Workshop (http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/app/aiwhome.htm)
- ANSI: American National Standards Institute, a US clearinghouse for standards, member of ISO (http://www.ansi.org)
- ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions: phone (202)434-8845
- Committee T1: ANSI (American National Standards Institute) accredited ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) sponsored Committee T1 (Telecommunications); the focal point for developing US positions for the ITU-T (formerly CCITT) (http://www.t1.org)
- CSR: This is an overview of formal communications standards organizations from Communications Standards Review, publishers of two technical journals reporting on formal telecommunications standards and work-in-progress in the ITU and TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association an ANSI accredited org) on wireline, wireless and fiber optics standards. CSR also publishes two TIA authorized directories of projects in TIA TR and FO committees. (http://www.csrstds.com/stdsover.html)
- DISA: Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. (http://www.disa.org)
- ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers Association, computer and communications technologies, a Europe based international association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems (http://www.ecma.ch)
- EIA: Electronic Industries Association, national trade association (http://www.eia.org)
- ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute (http://www.etsi.fr)
- IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission (http://ww.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/IEC/home.html)
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)
- IEEE Standards: (http://standards.ieee.org)
- IHS Comm: IHS Communications products, re-publish and produce Telecomm Standards Collection, Video Standards Collection and CommADVISOR (http://www.ihscommunications.com)
- IISP: United States Information Infrastructure Standards Panel; facilitate development of standards critical to the National and Global Information Infrastructure (NII and GII) (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/)
- ISO: International Organization for Standardization, a voluntary body of national standardization organizations: phone +41-22-341240
- ISO: International Organization for Standardization (http://www.iso.ch)
- ISO info: International Organization for Standardization information, by Dr. Hiroaki Ikeda (http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/ISO/home.html)
- ITU: International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunications (http://www.itu.ch)
- NIST-USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology WWW Home Page (http://www.nist.gov)
- Monaco Telematique and VEMMI: This service describes the new European and International VEMMI standard (Enhanced Man-Machine Interface for Videotex and Muitimedia/Hypermedia Information Retrieval Services) and how it could be used to create advanced object-oriented multimedia applications on Internet. The service also describe Monaco Telematique MCTEL activities in the VEMMI, multimedia and Internet fields (http://www.mctel.fr)
- SCTE: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Inc., (SCTE) is a non-profit professional organization formed in 1969 to promote the sharing of operational and technical knowledge in the field of cable TV and broadband communications. (http://www.scte.org)
- VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association (http://www.vesa.org)
These are organizations that play some part in setting or reporting on technical standards for telecommunications and networking.