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In <1992Oct7.015834.16314@times.aux.apple.com> mfc@medoc.aux.apple.com (Matt Caprile) writes:

Mathew is essentially correct with the exception of two small nits. 
[Hey. I'm a standards person. I'm supposed to be retentive :-) ]

>ANSI does develop standards. 
ANSI develops *no* standards. 
It accredits other organizations to develop standards. 
The ANSI C standard was developed by a 
CBEMA organization, X3, hence the standard's designation X3.159. 

> (2) NIST sometimes will not wait for a standard. [NIST made specs
>     using draft versions of POSIX.1 and POSIX.2.]
Exactly correct, except there was never a real FIPS for POSIX.2 in draft form.
[FIPS == Federal Information Processing Standard]
There were a couple of attempts, but they failed due to the real instability
of POSIX.2 in those days. I point this out only because NIST is just now 
putting together the real draft FIPS of POSIX.2 as POSIX.2 became a full use 
IEEE standard in September. (IEEE Std. 1003.2-1992.) The NIST announcement
has just gone out this week to begin the process. 

>To resume, (and to grossly simplify) ANSI is the standards organization
>for the US. NIST writes specifications to be used/met for government
>contract bidding.
Absolutely. 

cheers,
stephe
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