Acronyms

IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission

ISO: The International Organization for Standardization

ISO-IEC/JTC1: ISO and IEC Joint Technical Committee for Information Technology

TC/SC: Technical committees and subcommittees

Structure of ISO

1. Highest level: ISO / IEC / JTC1
2. Subcommittees (there are at least 36)
   1. Anyone can create a standard, but if you want ISO’s initials on it, there needs to be a subcommittee
3. Working group - at least 8 per subcommittee
   1. Each working group has a chair and members
   2. Generally stable for a few years, but can go out of existence if they run out of work
   3. Can spin off a new standard when they’re working on an existing standard, if the need arises.
      1. New standards are based on existing working groups, starting one from scratch is very hard. TO do that, ISO will go through their committees, and that could take 2-3 years to get off the ground.