INCITS

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INCITS is an acronym of International Committee for Information Technology Standards, an ANSI-accredited forum of IT developers. It was formerly known as X3 and NCITS.

X3/NCITS technical standard groups/technical committees have provided many important standards, among them:

T10 - SCSI
T11 (X3T9.3) - Fibre Channel
T13 - AT Attachment

INCITS coordinates technical standards activity between ANSI in the USA and joint ISO/IEC comittees worldwide. This provides a mechanism to create standards that will be implemented in many nations.

[edit] History

The forum is established in 1961 as 'Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology' and is sponcored by Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a trade association representing providers of information technology products and services then known as Computer and Business Equipment Asssociation (CBEMA). It was renamed Accredited Standards Committee NCITS, National Committee for Information Technology Standards in 1996, and the current name was approved in 2001.