Section 9 - 2.5 Standardization

ANSI (America National Standards Institute)

A private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.

JIS Q 9000

A quality management system pertaining to the collection of business processes focused on consistently meeting customer requirements and enhancing their satisfaction. It is aligned with an organization's purpose and strategic direction.

JIS Q series (management system)

A set of policies, processes and procedures used by an organization to ensure that it can fulfill the tasks required to achieve its objectives. These objectives cover many aspects of the organization's operations.

ISBN code (International Standard Book Number)

In bibliography, it is a 10- or 13-digit number assigned before publication to a book or edition thereof, which identifies the work's national, geographic, language, or other convenient group and its publisher, title, edition, and volume number.

JIS code

In computing, this refers to several Japanese Industrial Standards for encoding the Japanese language. JIS X 0208, the most common kanji character set containing 6,879 characters, including 6355 kanji and 524 other characters (one 94 by 94 plane)

ISO/IEC 15408

It establishes the general concepts and principles of IT security evaluation and specifies the general model of evaluation given by various parts of ISO/IEC 15408 which in its entirety is meant to be used as the basis for evaluation of security properties of IT products.

OMG (Object Management Group)

It is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies.

Unicode

It is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

ISO 14000

It is a family of standards related to environmental management that exists to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment; comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements; and continually improve in the above.

QR code (quick response code)

It is a matrix 2D code for high-speed reading developed by DENSO WAVE in 1994. It was registered to the ITS standard of the AIMI in 1997 and to ISO/IEC standards in 2000. In addition, Micro QR code was standardized as JIS-X-0510 in 2004.

ISO 9000

It is a set of standards that helps organizations ensure they meet customers and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service.

CORBA

It is a signal step on the road to object-oriented standardization and interoperability. With this, users gain access to information transparently, without them having to know what software or hardware platform it resides on or where it is located on an enterprise's network.

ITU (International Telecommunication Union)

It is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is responsible for issues that concern information and communication technologies. It is the oldest global international organization.

De jure standard

It is a technology, method or product that has been officially endorsed for a given application. Examples of these standards include: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet.

International certificate

It is a test of competence that provides the student with an internationally recognized qualification.

ISO/IEC 27001

It is an information security standard, part of the ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, of which the last version was published in 2013, with a few minor updates since then.

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)

It is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies - collectively known as "electrotechnology".

Certification body

It is an organization accredited by a recognized accrediting body for its competence to audit and issue certification confirming that an organization meets the requirements of a standard (e.g. ISO 9001 or ISO 14001).

JSA (Japanese Standards Association)

It is the Japanese industrial standard development organization which promotes standardization and management system in Japan

JIS X series (information processing)

It is the change of information in any manner detectable by an observer. As such, it is a process that describes everything that happens in the universe, from the falling of a rock to the printing of a text file from a digital computer system.

Conformity assessment

It is the comprehensive term for measures taken by manufacturers, their customers, regulatory authorities, and independent, third parties to assess conformity to standards. This, and standardization are separate activities. The two are, however, closely related.

Conformity assessment body

It is the legal entity that performs a conformity assessment of the TSP against eIDAS regulations and relevant standards and submits a conformity assessment report to the Supervisory Body (SB).

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

It is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and currently led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.

ITF code (Interleaved Two of Five)

It is widely used as the standard distribution code printed on corrugated cardboard boxes.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

It's a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey.

De facto standards

Refers to a custom or convention that has achieved a dominant position by public acceptance or market forces.

Inspection body

They conduct assessments on behalf of private clients, their parent organisations or the authorities, for the purpose of providing them with information on compliance with legislation, standards, specifications, contractual commitments, etc.

EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans)

This is one of several Java APIs for modular construction of enterprise software. It is a server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application.

IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)

This refers to an open standards organization, which develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite. It has no formal membership roster or membership requirements.

SLCP-JCF 2007

This was published in 2007 and incorporates the idea that there are fundamental issues to be addressed in the process from business and project planning through to requirements definition and enhancing the operation and user processes.

JAN code

UPC stands for the Universal Product Code. This symbology was initially adopted for use by the U.S. grocery industry, although its use has spread into other retail market places as well. JAN stands for the Japanese Article Numbering system, which is the Japanese version of UPC.

Accreditation body

Within the standardized system of ISO/IEC, it is an authoritative body that performs accreditation and thus verifies the competence of organisations carrying out conformity assessment activities.