IEEE Standards Association
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is an organization within IEEE that develops global standards in a broad range of industries, including: power and energy, biomedical and health care, information technology, telecommunication, transportation, nanotechnology, information assurance, and many more.
IEEE-SA has developed standards for over a century, through a program that offers balance, openness, fair procedures, and consensus. Technical experts from all over the world participate in the development of IEEE standards.[1]
IEEE-SA is not a body formally authorized by any government, but rather a community. Formally recognized international standards organizations (ISO, IEC, ITU, CEN) are federations of national standards bodies (American ANSI, German DIN, Japanese JISC, etc.).
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Notable IEEE Standards committees and formats
IEEE 260 | Standard Letter Symbols for Units of Measurement, IEEE-260-1978 (now 260.1-2004). | IEEE 488 | Standard Digital Interface for Programmable Instrumentation, IEEE-488-1978 (now 488.1). | IEEE 610 | Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology. | IEEE 754 | floating point arithmetic specifications. | IEEE 802 | LAN/MAN | IEEE 802.1 | Standards for LAN/MAN bridging and management and remote media access control (MAC) bridging. | IEEE 802.2 | Standards for Logical Link Control (LLC) standards for connectivity. | IEEE 802.3 | Ethernet Standards for Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD). | IEEE 802.4 | Standards for token passing bus access. | IEEE 802.5 | Standards for token ring access and for communications between LANs and MANs | IEEE 802.6 | Standards for information exchange between systems. | IEEE 802.7 | Standards for broadband LAN cabling. | IEEE 802.8 | Fiber optic connection. | IEEE 802.9