Activities in Standards and Specification Development Organizations (SSDOs)

The following is a partial list of standards and specification development organizations that we've participated in, past and present:

• General and GII (Global Information Infrastructure)
• Data, Metadata, Programming Environments, and Distributed Systems
• Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training (Learning Technology)

• INCITS Executive Board -- Farance Inc. is a member of INCITS (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards), a 40+ year old, accredited standards development organization that covers broad areas of information technology standardization.
• ISO-IEC JTC1/SC25/WG1 -- Home Electronic Systems. This committee is working on Residential Gateways. Farance Inc. has contributing to the HomeGate Residential Gateway Architecture and service protocols standards.
• ANSI IISP -- Information Infrastructure Standards Panel. A collection of US standards bodies, organizations, companies, and government agencies. The panel is identifying standards needs for the national and global information infrastructure. Farance Inc. is involved in: networks, nomadicity, distributed systems, security, applications, devices (appliances), electronic publications, education, entertainment, electronic commerce. We have collaborated on developing:
• Security framework and security standards needs: IISP/97-0257
• Nomadicity needs, Executive Summary: IISP/96-0174
• Nomadicity needs, Rationale: IISP/96-0175
• General: Farance Inc. has developed or collaborated on approximately 30% of the IISP standards needs: IISP/identified_needs
• ISO-IEC JTC1/SWGGII/JTGII - JTC1 Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Global Information Infrastructure (GII). Recommends the US position to the Special Working Group on GII. In other words, we're providing advice on how GII issues can be incorporated into standards work and how to coordinate efforts with ITU (International Telecommunications Union, formerly CCITT). We are the project editor for this document. For the latest copy of the GII roadmap, see: http://ssdo.org/jtc1/gii-roadmap.
• ISO-IEC JTC1/CAW - JTC1 Cultural Adaptability Workshop. Develops a cross-industry, cross-committee strategy for incorporating cultural elements, including: generic cultural adaptability including multi-lingualism, coded character sets and their characteristics, interfaces and interaction between users and systems. For more information and working papers, see: http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/caw
• ISO-IEC JTC/BT-EC - JTC1 Business Team on Electronic Commerce. Developing work items for electronic commerce standardization. For more information, click on and scroll down to: "Business Team on Electronic Commerce".
• ISO-IEC JTC1 Standards Operations Roundtable (SORT). Developing collaboration techniques and the posting of GII-related activities for standards development organizations (accredited standards bodies) and consortia (non-accredited organizations).
• White House Technology Policy Working Group Our paper on US competitiveness and standards activity was selected for publication on their web site (cached in HTML, MS-Word, and PDF).
• Choosing an architecture for the GII Discusses the issues related to picking an appropriate GII architecture -- actually, the paper demonstrates why there is no single GII architecture. The paper discusses the limitations of analysis and, in particular, the limitations of applying object-oriented technology in cross-industry solutions. Additionally, the paper explores the notions of "middleware" and "bitways" and reveals flaws in these terms. http://farance.com/standards/gii-arch-issues.html

• ISO-IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2 -- Metadata. This committee has developed the metadata registries (ISO/IEC 11179) series of standards. Farance Inc. has supplied the project editor for the ISO/IEC 20944 metadata interoperability binding series of standards and the ISO/IEC 19773 metadata modules standard.
• ISO-IEC JTC1 SC42 -- Artificial Intelligence (AI). This committee is working standards for Artificial Intelligences and its infrastructure.
• ISO-IEC JTC1/SC22/WG11 -- Language Independent Bindings. This committee has developed the Language Independent Arithmetic (LIA), Language Independent Datatypes (LID), and Language Independent Procedure Calls (LIPC). We have been involved in (1) bindings of LIA to the C programming language, and (2) extensions of LID to support semi-structured data, unstructured data, and XML bindings.  The ISO/IEC 11404 General Purpose Datatypes standard is now freely available.

• ISO-IEC JTC1/SC36 -- Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training. This ISO/IEC JTC1 Subcommittee is focused on information  technology standards (not education standards).
• IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC). The LTSC web site is: http://ieeeltsc.org
• IEEE 1484.1, Architecture and Reference Models WG is now an IEEE approved standard. Farance Inc. has developed an architecture for learning technology systems, the Learning Technology Systems Architecture (LTSA).

Last Update: 2020-09