Choose from a variety of standards organizations
and their mailing lists with interest in the subject of standardization in International
Software Development, Multilingual Testing, Multiplatform Localization, Internet and more.
Standards organizations include W3C
(World-Wide-Web Consortium), the Unicode Consortium
and LISA (The Localization Industry Standards Association).
AFNOR
Association Française de Normalisation.
American Electronics Association Europe (AEA Europe)
Founded in 1991, the American Electronics Association (AEA) is a not-for-profit
organization that directly represents 3,000 electronics manufacturers in all segments of
the global electronics industry, from software and semiconductors to computers and
communications systems via 20 AEA offices around the world (incl. Europe, Japan and China)
and several joint-venture offices in Central and Eastern Europe. AEA provides its members
with survey reports and statistics, employee benefits, business insurance, cost saving
services, financial services, management education, quality programs and topical
conferences, industry publications and advocacy to governments at all levels.
Espace Moselle, 40 rue des Drapiers, 1050 Brussels Belgium
phone: (32) 2 502 7015 or (32) 2 502 7560
fax: (32) 2 502 6734
http://www.aeanet.org
ANSI
The American National Standards Institutes (ANSI) has served in its capacity as
administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary
standardization system for 78 years. Founded in 1918 by five engineering societies and
three government agencies, the Institute remains a private, nonprofit membership
organization supported by a diverse constituency of private and public sector
organizations. ANSI facilitates development by establishing consensus among qualified
groups. The Institute ensures that its guiding principles -- consensus, due process and
openness -- are followed by the more than 175 distinct entities currently accredited under
one of the Federation's three methods of accreditation.
ANSI, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036 USA
phone: (212) 642-4900
fax: (212) 398-0023
http://www.ansi.org
BSI
British Standards Institute.
CAS
China Association for Standards.
CSA
Canadian Standards Association.
DIN
Deutsches Institut für Normung (German).
ECMA
European Computer Manufacturers Association is an international standards body with more than 30 years of experience in standardizing development languages and other technologies. ECMA is a principle participant in the International Standards Organization (ISO) standards family with a 'Class A' ISO liaison, which will facilitate acceptance of JavaScript as an ISO standard.
FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standards.
IEC
The International Engineering Consortium is a cooperative, public-service organization
dedicated to positive change in the information industry and its university communities.
For more than 50 years, the Consortium has provided educational opportunities for industry
professionals, university professors, and promising students. Executives from all over the
industry continue to build strong business and technical foundations for the future
through knowledge gained from IEC Forums and Publications.
International Engineering Consortium
549 West Randolph, Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60661-2208 USA
phone: (312) 559-4100
fax: (312) 559-4111
http://www.iec.org/
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's
largest technical professional society. Founded in 1884 by a handful of practitioners of
the new electrical engineering discipline, today's Institute is comprised of more than
320,000 members who conduct and participate in its activities in 147 countries. The
technical objectives of the IEEE focus on advancing the theory and practice of electrical,
electronics and computer engineering and computer science.
IEEE Operations Center
Admission and Advancement Department
445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 459, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0459 USA
phone: (800) 678-IEEE
fax: (908) 981-0225
http://www.ieee.org
ISO
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of
national standards bodies from some 100 countries, one from each country. ISO is a
non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the
development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to
facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing
cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic
activity. ISO's work results in international agreements which are published as
International Standards.
CENTRAL SECRETARIAT
1, rue de Varembé, Case postale 56, CH-1211 Genève 20, Switzerland
phone: (41) 22 749 01 11
fax: (41) 22 733 34 30
telex: (41) 22 05 iso ch
telegram: isorganiz
http://www.iso.ch/
ITU
The International Telecommunication Union, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an
international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate
global telecom networks and services. ITU activities include the coordination,
development, regulation and standardization of telecommunications and organization of
regional and world events.
Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland
phone: (41) 22 730-5111
fax: (41) 22 730-5484
http://www.itu.ch/
JSA
Japanese Standards Association.
LISA
LISA stands for The Localization Industry Standards
Association. Headquartered in Switzerland it is the Int'l Standards
Association for Enabling Global Business. It publishes The Globalization
Insider which contains lots of editorial material also published in their
website at:
http://www.lisa.org
NNI
Nederlands Normalisatie-Instutuut.
SCC
Standards Council of Canada.
SFS
Soumen Standardisomisliitto (Finland).
UNICODE CONSORTIUM
Consortium for the development of the Unicode Standard; a character coding
system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of
the written texts of the diverse languages of the modern world.
The Unicode Consortium
P.O. Box 391476
Mountain View, CA 94039-1476 USA
phone: (650) 693-3921
fax: (650) 693-3010
http://www.unicode.org
World-Wide-Web Consortium W3C
The W3C is an industry consortium which seeks to promote standards for the evolution of
the Web and interoperability between WWW products by producing specifications and reference software. The W3C
Winter mailing list is maintained by M.T. Carrasco Benitez, carrasco@innet.lu. A
full list of World Wide Web mailings is available at: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Mail/
The W3C Team at MIT is located at:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
phone: (617) 253-2613
fax: (617) 258-5999
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Consortium/Contact
