Information Technology Task Force
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/IEC
Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) is a body jointly formed by ISO and IEC responsible for the planning and coordination of the work of JTC 1
. It has several responsibilies described in the JTC 1 Directives clause 4.1 including:
International Organization for Standardization
The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...
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International Electrotechnical Commission
The International Electrotechnical Commission is a non-profit, non-governmental international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology"...
Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) is a body jointly formed by ISO and IEC responsible for the planning and coordination of the work of JTC 1
ISO/IEC JTC1
ISO/IEC JTC 1 is Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission . It deals with all matters of information technology....
. It has several responsibilies described in the JTC 1 Directives clause 4.1 including:
- day-to-day planning and coordination of the technical work
- supervising the application of rules
- advising JTC 1 on points of procedure
- administration of ballots
- publishing actitivies; including the printing, distribution and sale of International Standards
Publishing Activities
The ITTF makes a number of International Standards and associated material available for free-of-charge download “for standardization purposes” Some well-known texts so available include:- ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCSUniversal Character SetThe Universal Character Set , defined by the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal multiple-octet coded character set , is a standard set of characters upon which many character encodings are based...
) - ISO/IEC 14977 Syntactic metalanguage — Extended BNFExtended Backus–Naur formIn computer science, Extended Backus–Naur Form is a family of metasyntax notations used for expressing context-free grammars: that is, a formal way to describe computer programming languages and other formal languages. They are extensions of the basic Backus–Naur Form metasyntax notation.The...
- ISO/IEC 19757-2 Regular-grammar-based validation — RELAX NGRELAX NGIn computing, RELAX NG is a schema language for XML, based on Murata Makoto's RELAX and James Clark's TREX. A RELAX NG schema specifies a pattern for the structure and content of an XML document...
- ISO/IEC 26300 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocumentOpenDocumentThe Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents....
) v1.0 - ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML File Formats