Re: ANSI and NIST

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From: Alasdair Grant
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 13:15

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In article <3865@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>  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.

Or to put it another way, ISO/ANSI says "All ISO 123 widgets are 10mm long"
and FIPS says "All widgets used by the U.S. government must conform to 
ISO 123". In particular, NIST produces the US GOSIP, which is basically a 
list of ISO standards.

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