The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is an organization within IEEE that develops global standards in a broad range of industries, including: power and energy

Energy development

Energy development is the effort to provide sufficient primary energy sources and secondary energy forms for supply, cost, impact on air pollution and water pollution, mitigation of climate change with renewable energy....

, biomedical and health care

Health care

Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

, information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

, telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

, transportation, nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...

, information assurance

Information Assurance

Information assurance is the practice of managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems and processes used for those purposes...

, and many more.

IEEE-SA has developed standards for over a century, through a program that offers balance, openness, fair procedure

Fair procedure

Fair procedure is a common law doctrine that arises from a line of groundbreaking decisions of the Supreme Court of California dating back to the 1880s...

s, and consensus. Technical experts from all over the world participate in the development of IEEE standards.

IEEE-SA is not a body formally authorized by any government, but rather a community. Formally recognized international standards organizations (ISO, IEC, ITU, CEN) are federations of national standards bodies (American ANSI, German DIN, Japanese JISC, etc.).

Standards and the IEEE Standards Development Process

Each year, the IEEE-SA conducts over 200 standards ballots, a process by which proposed standards are voted upon for technical reliability and soundness. In 2005, IEEE had close to 900 active standards, with 500 standards under development. One of the more notable are the IEEE 802

IEEE 802

IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks.More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets. IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and...

 LAN

Län

Län and lääni refer to the administrative divisions used in Sweden and previously in Finland. The provinces of Finland were abolished on January 1, 2010....

/MAN

Metropolitan area network

A metropolitan area network is a computer network that usually spans a city or a large campus. A MAN usually interconnects a number of local area networks using a high-capacity backbone technology, such as fiber-optical links, and provides up-link services to wide area networks and the...

 group of standards, with the widely used computer networking standards for both wired (ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

) and wireless (IEEE 802.11

IEEE 802.11

IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee . The base version of the standard IEEE 802.11-2007 has had subsequent...

) networks.

The IEEE standards development process can be broken down into seven basic steps:

1. Securing Sponsorship: An IEEE-approved organization must sponsor a standard. A sponsoring organization is in charge of coordinating and supervising the standard development from inception to completion. The professional societies within IEEE serve as the natural sponsor for many standards.
2. Requesting Project Authorization: To gain authorization for the standard a Project Authorization Request (PAR) is submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board. The New Standards Committee (NesCom) of the IEEE-SA Standards Board reviews the PAR and makes a recommendation to the Standards Board about whether to approve the PAR.
3. Assembling a Working Group: After the PAR is approved, a working group
   Working group
   A working group is an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers working on new research activities that would be difficult to develop under traditional funding mechanisms . The lifespan of the WG can last anywhere between a few months and several years...
   
    of individuals affected by, or interested in, the standard is organized to develop the standard. IEEE-SA rules ensure that all Working Group meetings are open and that anyone has the right to attend and contribute to the meetings.
4. Drafting the Standard: The Working Group prepares a draft of the proposed standard. Generally, the draft follows the IEEE Standards Style Manual that sets guidelines for the clauses and format of the standards document.
5. Balloting: Once a draft of the standard is finalized in the Working Group, the draft is submitted for Balloting approval. The IEEE Standards Department sends an invitation-to-ballot to any individual who has expressed an interest in the subject matter of the standard. Anyone who responds positively to the invitation-to-ballot becomes a member of the balloting group, as long as the individual is an IEEE Standards Association member or has paid a balloting fee. The IEEE requires that a proposed draft of the standard receive a response rate of 75% (i.e., at least 75% of potential ballots are returned) and that, of the responding ballots, at least 75% approve the proposed draft of the standard. If the standard is not approved, the process returns to the drafting of the standard step in order to modify the standard document to gain approval of the balloting group.
6. Review Committee: After getting 75% approval, the draft standard, along with the balloting comments, are submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board Review Committee (RevCom). The RevCom reviews the proposed draft of the standard against the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws and the stipulations set forth in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual. The RevCom then makes a recommendation about whether to approve the submitted draft of the standard document.
7. Final Vote: Each member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board places a final vote on the submitted standard document. In some cases external members are invited to vote. It takes a majority vote of the Standards Board to gain final approval of the standard. In general, if the RevCom recommends approval, the Standards Board will vote to approve the standard.

Notable IEEE Standards committees and formats

IEEE 260	Standard Letter Symbols for Units of Measurement, IEEE-260-1978 (now 260.1-2004).
IEEE 488	Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation, IEEE-488-1978 (now 488.1).
IEEE 610	Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology.
IEEE 754	floating point Floating point In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent. The base for the scaling is normally 2, 10 or 16...  arithmetic specifications.
IEEE 802 IEEE 802 IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks.More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets. IEEE 802 refers to a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and...	LAN Län Län and lääni refer to the administrative divisions used in Sweden and previously in Finland. The provinces of Finland were abolished on January 1, 2010.... /MAN Metropolitan area network A metropolitan area network is a computer network that usually spans a city or a large campus. A MAN usually interconnects a number of local area networks using a high-capacity backbone technology, such as fiber-optical links, and provides up-link services to wide area networks and the...
IEEE 802.1 IEEE 802.1 IEEE 802.1 is a working group of the IEEE 802 project of the IEEE Standards Association.It is concerned with:* 802 LAN/MAN architecture* internetworking among 802 LANs, MANs and other wide area networks* 802 Link Security* 802 overall network management...	Standards for LAN/MAN bridging and management and remote media access control (MAC) bridging.
IEEE 802.2 IEEE 802.2 IEEE 802.2 is the IEEE 802 standard defining Logical Link Control , which is the upper portion of the data link layer of the OSI Model. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the network layer...	Standards for Logical Link Control (LLC) standards for connectivity.
IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3 IEEE 802.3 is a working group and a collection of IEEE standards produced by the working group defining the physical layer and data link layer's media access control of wired Ethernet. This is generally a local area network technology with some wide area network applications...	Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....  Standards for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD).
IEEE 802.4	Standards for token passing bus access.
IEEE 802.5	Standards for token ring access and for communications between LANs and MANs
IEEE 802.6 IEEE 802.6 IEEE 802.6 is a standard governed by the ANSI for Metropolitan Area Networks . It is an improvement of an older standard which used the Fiber distributed data interface network structure. The FDDI-based standard failed due to its expensive implementation and lack of compatibility with current LAN...	Standards for information exchange between systems.
IEEE 802.7 IEEE 802.7 IEEE 802.7 is a sub-standard of the IEEE 802 which covers broadband local area networks. The working group did issue a recommendation in 1989, but is currently inactive and in hibernation....	Standards for broadband LAN cabling.
IEEE 802.8 IEEE 802.8 The Fiber Optic Technical Advisory Group was to create a LAN standard for fiber optic media used in token passing computer networks like FDDI. This was part of the IEEE 802 group of standards....	Fiber optic connection.
IEEE 802.9	Standards for integrated services, like voice and data.
IEEE 802.10 IEEE 802.10 IEEE 802.10 is a former standard for security functions that could be used in both local area networks and metropolitan area networks based on IEEE 802 protocols....	Standards for LAN/MAN security implementations.
IEEE 802.11 IEEE 802.11 IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing wireless local area network computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are created and maintained by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee . The base version of the standard IEEE 802.11-2007 has had subsequent...	Wireless Networking – "WiFi WIFI WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a brokered format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA, the station is currently operated by Florence Broadcasting Partners, LLC.This station was previously owned by Real Life Broadcasting... ".
IEEE 802.12	Standards for demand priority access method.
IEEE 802.14	Standards for cable television broadband communications.
IEEE 802.15.1	Bluetooth
IEEE 802.15.4 IEEE 802.15.4 IEEE 802.15.4 is a standard which specifies the physical layer and media access control for low-rate wireless personal area networks . It is maintained by the IEEE 802.15 working group....	Wireless Sensor/Control Networks – "ZigBee ZigBee ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, and other consumer and industrial... "
IEEE 802.16 IEEE 802.16 IEEE 802.16 is a series of Wireless Broadband standards authored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . The IEEE Standards Board in established a working group in 1999 to develop standards for broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks...	Wireless Networking – "WiMAX WiMAX WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations... "
IEEE 828	Software Configuration Management Plans
IEEE 829 IEEE 829 IEEE 829-1998, also known as the 829 Standard for Software Test Documentation, is an IEEE standard that specifies the form of a set of documents for use in eight defined stages of software testing, each stage potentially producing its own separate type of document...	Software Test Documentation
IEEE 830	Software Requirements Specifications
IEEE 896	Futurebus
IEEE 1003	Unix Unix Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...  compatibility programming standard - POSIX
IEEE 1016	Software Design Description
IEEE 1044	Standard Classification for Software Anomalies
IEEE 1059	Software Verification And Validation Plan
IEEE 1073	Point of Care Medical Device Communication Standards
IEEE 1074	Software Development Life Cycle
IEEE 1076 IEEE 1076 The IEEE Standard 1076 defines the VHSIC Hardware Description Language or VHDL. It was originally developed under contract F33615-83-C-1003 from the United States Air Force awarded in 1983 to a team with Intermetrics, Inc. as language experts and prime contractor, with Texas Instruments as chip...	VHDL – VHSIC VHSIC VHSIC was a 1980s U.S. government program to develop very-high-speed integrated circuits.The United States Department of Defense launched the VHSIC project in 1980 as a joint tri-service project. The project led to advances in integrated circuit materials, lithography, packaging, testing, and...  Hardware Description Language Hardware description language In electronics, a hardware description language or HDL is any language from a class of computer languages, specification languages, or modeling languages for formal description and design of electronic circuits, and most-commonly, digital logic...
IEEE 1149.1 JTAG Joint Test Action Group is the common name for what was later standardized as the IEEE 1149.1 Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture. It was initially devised for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan and is still widely used for this application.Today JTAG is also...	JTAG
IEEE 1149.6 JTAG Joint Test Action Group is the common name for what was later standardized as the IEEE 1149.1 Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture. It was initially devised for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan and is still widely used for this application.Today JTAG is also...	AC-JTAG
IEEE 1180	Discrete cosine transform Discrete cosine transform A discrete cosine transform expresses a sequence of finitely many data points in terms of a sum of cosine functions oscillating at different frequencies. DCTs are important to numerous applications in science and engineering, from lossy compression of audio and images A discrete cosine transform...  accuracy
IEEE 1233	System Requirements Specification
IEEE 1275	Open Firmware
IEEE 1284 IEEE 1284 IEEE 1284 is a standard that defines bi-directional parallel communications between computers and other devices.-History:In the 1970s, Centronics developed the now-familiar printer parallel port that soon became a de facto standard...	Parallel port Parallel port A parallel port is a type of interface found on computers for connecting various peripherals. In computing, a parallel port is a parallel communication physical interface. It is also known as a printer port or Centronics port...
IEEE P1363 IEEE P1363 IEEE P1363 is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standardization project for public-key cryptography. It includes specifications for:* Traditional public-key cryptography...	Public key cryptography
IEEE 1394	Serial bus - "FireWire", "i.Link"
IEEE 1471 IEEE 1471 IEEE 1471 is an IEEE Standard for describing the architecture of a software-intensive system, also known as software architecture.- Overview :...	software architecture Software architecture The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both...  / system architecture
IEEE 1541 IEEE 1541 IEEE 1541-2002 is a standard issued by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers concerning the use of prefixes for binary multiples of units of measurement related to digital electronics and computing....	Prefixes for Binary Multiples Binary prefix In computing, a binary prefix is a specifier or mnemonic that is prepended to the units of digital information, the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of 2...
IEEE 1584 IEEE 1584 IEEE Std 1584-2002 is a standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that provides a method of calculating the incident energy of Arc Flash event.-Purpose:...	Guide for Performing Arc Flash Arc flash An arc flash is a type of electrical explosion that results from a low impedance connection to ground or another voltage phase in an electrical system.-Definition:...  Hazard Calculations
IEEE 1588	Precision Time Protocol
IEEE P1619 IEEE P1619 IEEE P1619 is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standardization project for encryption of stored data, but more generically refers to the work of the IEEE P1619 Security in Storage Working Group , which includes a family of standards for protection of stored data and for the...	Security in Storage Working Group (SISWG)
IEEE 1667 IEEE 1667 IEEE 1667 is a standard published and maintained by the IEEE that describes various methods for authenticating transient storage devices such as USB flash drives when they are inserted into a computer.Since the protocol is universal, it means that will be platform independent of operating...	Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices
IEEE 1801 Unified Power Format Unified Power Format is the popular name of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standard for specifying power intent in power optimization of electronic design automation...	Unified Power Format Unified Power Format Unified Power Format is the popular name of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standard for specifying power intent in power optimization of electronic design automation...
IEEE 1900 IEEE SCC41 The Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks standards committee, formerly Standards Coordinating Committee 41 , and even earlier IEEE P1900 Standards Committee, is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . The group develops standards for radio and spectrum management...	Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN)
IEEE 1901	Broadband over Power Line Networks Power line communication Power line communication or power line carrier , also known as power line digital subscriber line , mains communication, power line telecom , power line networking , or broadband over power lines are systems for carrying data on a conductor also used for electric power transmission.A wide range...
IEEE 2600	Hardcopy Device and System Security (and related ISO/IEC 15408 Protection Profiles)
IEEE 12207 IEEE 12207 IEEE/EIA 12207.0, "Standard for Information Technology – Software Life Cycle Processes", is a standard that establishes a common framework for software life cycle process....	Information Technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...  - Software life-cycle processes
IEEE Switchgear Committee	C37 series of standards for Low and High voltage equipment

Awards

The IEEE Standard Association Award

IEEE SA International Award

The IEEE Standard Association Award is presented annually to an IEEE-SA individual member who has made an extraordinary contribution to establishing the IEEE-SA as a leader in standardization...

is presented annually to an IEEE-SA individual member (who is also an IEEE member) who has made an extraordinary contribution to establishing the IEEE-SA as a world-class leader in standardization. Recognition consists of a crystal globe and certificate.

External links

• IEEE Standards website
• IEEE JTAG 1149.x Standards