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Article #165Re: ANSI and NIST
From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 11:20
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 11:20
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Not quite right -- NIST develops OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT STANDARDS. Sometimes it does this in conjunction with ANSI work and sometimes not. However, NIST standards are very much official and are not just "advisory" or "recommendations." The acronym FIPS stands for Federal Information Processing STANDARD, for example. The relationship between the IEEE and ANSI wasn't described very clearly either. The IEEE develops standards that are used world-wide on its own, independent of ANSI. Occasionally some of those IEEE standards will be propagated to ISO via ANSI (e.g. the POSIX work of IEEE 1003.*/ISO9945-* and most of the LAN standards in IEEE 802.*/ISO 8802-*). However many IEEE standards are never offered to ANSI at all. Also, IEEE standards are world-wide rather than just being for the US, though the power transmission specs do tend to be North American conventions of 120 VAC, 60 Hz rather than the European conventions of 220 VAC, 50 Hz.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!atkinson From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: ANSI and NIST Keywords: ANSI, NIST Message-ID: <3865@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: 7 Oct 92 11:20:49 GMT References: <1992Oct05.171911.9981@nuustak.csir.co.za> <1992Oct7.015834.16314@times.aux.apple.com> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC Lines: 19