ISO/IEC JTC1

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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.

JTC 1 members are national standards organisations, divided into Participating (P) Members and Observer (O) Members. Other organisations participate as Liaison Members, some internal to ISO/IEC and some external.

Membership is open to any national body. Membership greatly expanded in August and September 2007, just prior to the initial vote on Office Open XML as DIS (Draft International Standard) 29500.

[edit] Subcommittees

Most work is done by subcommittees dealing with a particular field. Subcommittees include:

SC 02: Coded character sets
SC 06: Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
SC 07: Software and systems engineering
SC 17: Cards and personal identification
SC 22: Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
SC 23: Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange and Storage
SC 24: Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation
SC 25: Interconnection of information technology equipment
SC 27: IT Security techniques
SC 28: Office equipment
SC 29: Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information
SC 31: Automatic identification and data capture techniques
SC 32: Data management and interchange
SC 34: Document description and processing languages
SC 35: User interfaces
SC 36: Information technology for learning, education and training
SC 37: Biometrics