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.
It was formed in 1987 as a merger between ISO/TC 97 (Information Technology) and IEC/TC 83, with IEC//SC 47B joining later. The intent was to bring together in a single Committee the Information Technology standardization activities of the two parent organizations.
Its official mandate is to develop, maintain, promote and facilitate IT standards required by global markets meeting business and user requirements concerning:
Membership is open to any national body, in much the same way as membership in either of the two parent organizations. A member can be either participating (P) or observing (O) and the difference is mainly the ability to vote on proposed standards and other products. Other organizations participate as Liaison Members, some internal to ISO/IEC and some external. There is no requirement for any member body to maintain either (or any) status on all of the sub-committees. Although rare, sub-committees can be created to deal with new situations (SC 37 was approved in 2002) or disbanded if the area of work is no longer relevant.
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Most work is done by subcommittees (SC) dealing with a particular field. Most of these subcommittees have several working groups (WG). Subcommittees include:[1]
Each of the Sub Committees can have Sub groups created for specific purposes: 1. Study Groups (SG): These groups explore new ideas and analyse them to come out with recommendations. The recommendations need to be submitted to the SC for voting before being accepted. The acceptance of a proposal is decided democratically. 2. Work Groups (WG #): These groups take forward the recommendations of the Study groups to come up with the final standard / modified standard. The final outcome is again put up for voting before being accepted.