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ISO/IEC JTC 1

ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology

Formation 1987

Type Standards organization

Purpose/focus Development of worldwide information and communications technology (ICT) standards for business and consumer

applications

Location New York

Region served Worldwide

Parent organization International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

Website [1]

ISO/IEC JTC 1 is Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its purpose as a technical committee is to develop, maintain,promote, and facilitate standards in the fields of information technology (IT) and Information and Communications

Technology (ICT).

History

ISO/IEC JTC 1 was formed in 1987 as a merger between ISO/TC 97 (Information Technology) and IEC/TC 83, with

IEC/SC 47B joining later. The intent was to bring together, in a single committee, the IT standardization activities of

the two parent organizations in order to avoid duplicative or possibly incompatible standards. At the time of its

formation, the mandate of JTC 1 was to develop base standards in information technology upon which other

technical committees could build. This would allow for the development of domain and application specific

standards that could be applicable to specific business domains, while also ensuring the interoperation and function

of the standards on a consistent base.

In its first 15 years, JTC 1 brought about many standards in the information technology sector, including standards in

the fields of multimedia (such as MPEG), IC cards (or smart cards), ICT security, programming languages, and

character sets (such as the Universal Character Set). In the early 2000s, the organization expanded its standards

development into fields such as security and authentication, bandwidth/connection management, storage and data

management, software and systems engineering, service protocols, portable computing devices, and certain societal

aspects such as data protection and cultural and linguistic adaptability.

For more than 25 years, JTC 1 has provided a standards development environment where experts come together to

develop worldwide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards for business and consumerapplications. JTC 1 is also addressing such critical areas as teleconferences and e-meetings, cloud data management

interface, biometrics in identity management, sensor networks for smart grid systems, and corporate governance of

ICT implementation. As technologies converge, JTC 1 acts as a system integrator, especially in areas of

standardization in which many consortia and forums are active. JTC 1 provides the standards approval environment

for integrating diverse and complex ICT technologies. These standards rely upon the core infrastructure technologies

developed by JTC 1 centers of expertise complemented by specifications developed in other organizations. There are

over 2600 published JTC 1 standards developed by some 2100 technical experts from around the world, many of

which are freely available for download.

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JTC 1 PAS process

JTC 1 has a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) process, making the approval process for standards much easier

and more efficient. This process allows ICT consortia to fast process their Publicly Available Specifications (PASs)

into ISO/IEC approved standards within 9 months. Consortia, such as OASIS, Trusted Computing Group (TCG),

The Open Group, Object Management Group (OMG), W3C, UPnP Forum, Distributed Management Task Force

(DMTF), SNIA and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) use this process to quickly transpose their specifications

into ISO/IEC standards.

Scope and mission

The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1 is International standardization in the field of Information Technology. Its official

mandate is to develop, maintain, promote and facilitate IT standards required by global markets meeting business

and user requirements concerning:

The design and development of IT systems and tools

The performance and quality of IT products and systems

The security of IT systems and information The portability of application programs

The interoperability of IT products and systems

The unified tools and environments

The harmonized IT vocabulary

The user-friendly and ergonomically-designed user interfaces

Guiding principles

JTC 1 has a number of principles that guide standards development within the organization, which include:

Standards development conducted with full attention to a strong business-like approach (e.g., cost effective, shortdevelopment times, market-oriented results)

Providing a wide range of quality products and services, within the JTC 1 scope and mission, to cover identified

global needs

Promoting the use of its products and services and the timely implementation of JTC 1 standards within the form

of useful products on a worldwide basis

Ensuring that its user needs, including multicultural requirements, are fully met, such that its products and

services promote international trade

Recognizing the value of the work of other organizations and the contribution they make to international IT

standardization and complementing existing and forthcoming JTC 1 programs through other leading edge activity

with the objective of providing the best standards worldwide Providing a standards development environment which attracts technical experts and users having identified

standardization needs

Members

Membership in JTC 1 is open to any national body, as is the case for membership in either of the two parent

organizations. A member can be either participating (P) or observing (O), with the difference mainly being the

ability to vote on proposed standards. There are a number of countries that are active participants of JTC 1, as well as

a number of observing countries. The secretariat of JTC 1 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI),

located in the United States.

Other organizations can participate as Liaison Members, some of which are internal to ISO/IEC and some of which

are external. The external organizations that are in liaison with JTC 1 are:

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European Commission (EC)

Ecma International

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Structure

Most work on the development of standards is done by subcommittees (SCs), each of which deals with a particular

field. Most of these subcommittees have several working groups (WGs). Subcommittees, working groups, and

special working groups (SWGs) within JTC 1 are:

Subcommittee/Working Group/Special Working Group Title

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SWG 1 Accessibility (SWG-A)

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SWG 2 Directives

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SWG 3 Planning

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SWG 5 Internet of Things (IoT)

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SWG 6 Management

ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 Sensor networks

ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 8 Governance of IT

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 Telecommunications and information exchange between systems

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 Software and systems engineering

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17 Cards and personal identification

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23 Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange and Storage

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 Interconnection of information technology equipment

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 IT security techniques

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 28 Office equipment

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document description and processing languages

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 Information technology for learning, education and training

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 Biometrics

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 Distributed application platforms & services (DAPS)

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 39 Sustainability for and by Information Technology

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 40 IT Service Management and IT Governance

Each subcommittee can have subgroups created for specific purposes:

Study Groups (SG) are chartered to investigate the need and feasibility of additional standardization and/or

guidance in a technical area. The main objective of a Study Group is to understand the current activities in a

particular area and make recommendations to JTC 1 or a specific subcommittee.

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Working Groups (WG) are established to expedite development of one or more approved work items, and will

exist as long as it has responsibility for approved work items.

Other Working Groups (OWG) undertake specific tasks between the meetings of a subcommittee. These tasks

are defined in the terms of reference of the OWG.

Subcommittees can be created to deal with new situations (SC 37 was established in 2002; SC 38 in 2009 and SC 39

in 2012) or disbanded if the area of work is no longer relevant. There is no requirement for any member body tomaintain status on any or all of the subcommittees.

References

[1] http:/ /www.iso.org/iso/jtc1_home. html

External links

ISO/IEC JTC 1 page at ISO (http://www.iso.org/iso/jtc1_home)

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