ISO was founded in 1947 and regulates international standards through representatives from national standards organizations. It develops various technical documents through subcommittees, including International Standards (IS), Technical Reports, Technical Specifications, Technical Corrigenda, and Guides. ISO works jointly with IEC through JTC 1 on information technology standards. IEC focuses on electrotechnology standards and has national member committees that represent countries.
2. ISO was founded on February 23, 1947
International Organization for Standardization
(HQ: Geneva, Switzerland) is regulated by
representatives from various national standards
organizations with an objective to form
international standards on proprietary,
industrial, and commercial practices.
It also publishes technical reports, technical
specifications, publicly available specifications,
technical corrigenda, and guides.
3. Source of revenue for ISO
Sale of International Standards
Subscriptions from 164 member countries
Specific Organisations
4. ISO Format
ISO[/IEC] [/ASTM] [IS] nnnnn [-p]:[yyyy] Title,
where,
IEC for International Electrotechnical Commission is included if the
standard results from the work of ISO/IEC JTC1 (the ISO/IEC Joint
Technical Committee).
ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) is used for standards
developed in cooperation with ASTM International.
The date and IS are not used for an incomplete or unpublished standard
and may under some circumstances be left off the title of a published work.
nnnnn is the number of the standard,
p is an optional part number,
yyyy is the year published, and
Title describes the subject.
5. ISO Tech Reports
Technical reports are issued when a technical committee or
subcommittee has collected data of a different kind from
that normally published as an International Standard, such
as references and explanations. The naming conventions
for these are the same as for standards, except TR
prepended instead of IS in the report's name.
Examples:
ISO/IEC TR 17799:2000 Code of Practice for Information
Security Management
ISO/TR 19033:2000 Technical product documentation
Metadata for construction documentation.
6. ISO Tech Specs
Technical Specifications can be produced when "the subject in
question is still under development or where for any other reason
there is the future but not immediate possibility of an agreement to
publish an International Standard".
Publicly Available Specifications may be "an intermediate
specification, published prior to the development of a full
International Standard, or, in IEC may be a 'dual logo' publication
published in collaboration with an external organization".
For example:
ISO/TS 16952-1:2006 Technical product documentation
Reference designation system Part 1: General application rules
ISO/PAS 11154:2006 Road vehicles Roof load carriers
7. ISO Tech Corrigenda
ISO sometimes issues technical corrigenda.
Corrigenda (plural of corrigendum) are
amendments to existing standards because of
minor technical flaws, usability improvements,
or limited applicability extensions. Generally,
these are issued with the expectation that the
affected standard will be updated or withdrawn
at its next scheduled review.
8. ISO Guides
ISO Guides are meta-standards covering
"matters related to international
standardization".
They are named in the format "ISO[/IEC] Guide
N:yyyy: Title", for example:
ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004 Standardization and
related activities General vocabulary
ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996 General requirements
for bodies operating product certification.
9. Abbreviations used in process of
Standardization
A standard published by ISO/IEC is the last stage of a long process that
commonly starts with the proposal of new work within a committee:
PWI - Preliminary Work Item
NP or NWIP - New Proposal / New Work Item Proposal (e.g., ISO/IEC NP
23007)
AWI - Approved new Work Item (e.g., ISO/IEC AWI 15444-14)
WD - Working Draft (e.g., ISO/IEC WD 27032)
CD - Committee Draft (e.g., ISO/IEC CD 23000-5)
FCD - Final Committee Draft (e.g., ISO/IEC FCD 23000-12)
DIS - Draft International Standard (e.g., ISO/IEC DIS 14297)
FDIS - Final Draft International Standard (e.g., ISO/IEC FDIS 27003)
PRF - Proof of a new International Standard (e.g., ISO/IEC PRF 18018)
IS - International Standard (e.g., ISO/IEC 13818-1:2007)
10. Abbreviations used in process of
Amendments
NP Amd - New Proposal Amendment (e.g., ISO/IEC 15444-2:
2004/NP Amd 3)
AWI Amd - Approved new Work Item Amendment (e.g., ISO/IEC
14492:2001/AWI Amd 4)
WD Amd - Working Draft Amendment (e.g., ISO 11092:1993/WD
Amd 1)
CD Amd / PDAmd - Committee Draft Amendment / Proposed Draft
Amendment (e.g., ISO/IEC 13818-1:2007/CD Amd 6)
FPDAmd / DAM (DAmd) - Final Proposed Draft Amendment / Draft
Amendment (e.g., ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003/FPDAmd 1)
FDAM (FDAmd) - Final Draft Amendment (e.g., ISO/IEC 13818-1:
2007/FDAmd 4)
PRF Amd - (e.g., ISO 12639:2004/PRF Amd 1)
Amd - Amendment (e.g., ISO/IEC 13818-1:2007/Amd 1:2007)
11. Other Abbreviations used in process
of Standardisation
TR - Technical Report (e.g., ISO/IEC TR 19791:2006)
DTR - Draft Technical Report (e.g., ISO/IEC DTR 19791)
TS - Technical Specification (e.g., ISO/TS 16949:2009)
DTS - Draft Technical Specification (e.g., ISO/DTS 11602-1)
PAS - Publicly Available Specification
TTA - Technology Trends Assessment (e.g., ISO/TTA 1:1994)
IWA - International Workshop Agreement (e.g., IWA 1:2005)
Cor - Technical Corrigendum (e.g., ISO/IEC 13818-1:2007/Cor 1:
2008)
Guide - a guidance to technical committees for the preparation of
standards
12. Stages of Standardisation
International Standards are developed by ISO
technical committees (TC) and subcommittees
(SC) by a process with six steps:
Stage 1: Proposal stage
Stage 2: Preparatory stage
Stage 3: Committee stage
Stage 4: Enquiry stage
Stage 5: Approval stage
Stage 6: Publication stage
13. Stages in development process of
an ISO Standard
Associated
Stage code Stage Abbreviations Description
document name
00 Preliminary stage Preliminary work item PWI
New work item NP or NWIP, NP
10 Proposal stage
proposal Amd/TR/TS/IWA
AWI, AWI
20 Preparatory stage Working draft(s) Amd/TR/TS, WD, WD
Amd/TR/TS
CD, CD
Amd/Cor/TR/TS,
30 Committee stage Committee draft(s)
PDAmd (PDAM),
PDTR, PDTS
DIS, FCD, FPDAmd,
40 Enquiry stage Enquiry draft DAmd (DAM), (CDV in IEC)
FPDISP, DTR, DTS
FDIS, FDAmd
Final draft (FDAM), PRF, PRF
50 Approval stage
International Standard Amd/TTA/TR/TS/Supp
l, FDTR
ISO TR, TS, IWA,
60 Publication stage International Standard
Amd, Cor
ISO TR, TS, IWA,
90 Review stage
Amd, Cor
95 Withdrawal stage
14. IEC = International ElectroTechnical
Commission
It 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".
IEC standards cover a vast range of technologies from
power generation, transmission and distribution to
home appliances and office equipment,
semiconductors, fibre optics, batteries, solar energy,
nanotechnology and marine energy as well as many
others.
15. IEC = International ElectroTechnical
Commission
The IEC also manages three global conformity assessment
systems that certify whether equipment, system or
components conform to its International Standards.
The IEC charter embraces all electrotechnologies including
energy production and distribution, electronics, magnetics
and electromagnetics, electroacoustics, multimedia and
telecommunication, as well as associated general
disciplines such as terminology and symbols,
electromagnetic compatibility (by its Advisory Committee
on Electromagnetic Compatibility, ACEC), measurement
and performance, dependability, design and development,
safety and the environment.
16. IEC Composition
The IEC is made up of members, called
national committees, and each NC represents
its nation's electrotechnical interests in the IEC.
This includes manufacturers, providers,
distributors and vendors, consumers and
users, all levels of governmental agencies,
professional societies and trade associations
as well as standards developers from national
standards bodies.
17. Contributions of IEC
The IEC was instrumental in developing and
distributing standards for units of measurement,
particularly Gauss, Hertz, and Weber.
They also first proposed a system of standards, the
Giorgi System, which ultimately became the SI, or
Syst竪me International dunit辿s (in English, the
International System of Units).
In 1938, it published a multilingual international
vocabulary to unify electrical terminology. This effort
continues, and the International Electrotechnical
Vocabulary remains an important work in the electrical
and electronic industries.
18. IEC associations
The IEC cooperates closely with the
International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) and the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU).
In addition, it works with several major
standards development organizations, including
the IEEE with which it signed a cooperation
agreement in 2002, which was amended in
2008 to include joint development work.
19. ISO/IEC is Joint Technical Committee 1
Standards developed jointly with ISO such as
ISO/IEC 26300, Open Document Format for
Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 carry
the acronym of both organizations. The use of the
ISO/IEC prefix covers publications from ISO/IEC
Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information
Technology, as well as conformity assessment
standards developed by ISO CASCO. Other
standards developed in cooperation between IEC
and ISO are assigned numbers in the 80000
series, such as IEC 82045-1.
20. ISO/IEC is JTC 1
ISO/IEC JTC 1 is Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
It deals with all matters of Information Technology.
It 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
Information Technology standardization activities of the two parent
organizations.
21. ISO/IEC is JTC 1
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.
22. ISO/IEC is JTC 1
Membership is open to any national body, in much the
same way as membership in either of the two parent
organizations. A member can be either Participating (P) or
Observing (O) and the difference is mainly the ability to
vote on proposed standards and other products.
Other organizations participate as Liaison Members, some
internal to ISO/IEC and some external. There is no
requirement for any member body to maintain either (or
any) status on all of the sub-committees. Although rare,
sub-committees can be created to deal with new
situations (SC 37 was approved in 2002) or disbanded if
the area of work is no longer relevant.
23. Structure of ISO/IEC Sub-Committee
Each of the Sub Committees can have Sub groups created for
specific purposes:
Study Groups (SG): These groups explore new ideas and
analyse them to come out with recommendations. The
recommendations need to be submitted to the SC for voting
before being accepted. The acceptance of a proposal is
decided democratically.
Work Groups (WG #): These groups take forward the
recommendations of the Study groups to come up with the
final standard / modified standard. The final outcome is again
put up for voting before being accepted.