This document summarizes several standards organizations and the types of standards they develop. It discusses de facto and de jure standards, and describes the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its sectors that develop standards for radio communications, telecommunications, and development. It also outlines the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and its technical committees and working groups. Finally, it discusses how the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops Request for Comments (RFCs) into Internet standards through testing and approval processes.
2. To outcome the own ideas and products in network
world it is possible by coordination and support of some
network standards.
Standards are mainly used to market the products.
Two categories of standard:
* de facto
* de jure
3. De facto (Latin for ''from the fact'') standards, without any
formal plan. The IBM PC and its successors are de facto
standards.
De jure (Latin for ''by law'') standards, in contrast, are formal,
legal standards adopted by some authorized standardization
body.
International standardization authorities divided into two
classes,
* Treaty among national governments.
* Voluntary, nontreaty organizations.
4. The United States, which has 1500 separate, privately
owned telephone companies.
In 1984 ,AT&T provide long-distance service, although
now in competition with other companies .
It provided telephone service to about 80 percent of
America's telephones
In 1865, Europe lead the way to today's ITU
(International Telecommunication Union)ex: telegraphy. In
1947, ITU became an agency of the United Nations
5. ITU has three main sectors:
* Radio communications Sector (ITU-R).
* Telecommunications Standardization Sector
(ITU-T).
* Development Sector (ITU-D).
ITU-R ,allocating radio frequencies worldwide.
ITU-T, telephone and data communication systems
From 1956 to 1993,ITU-T was known as CCITT
Acronym: CCITT
French name: Comite Consultatif International
Télégraphique et Téléphonique
Both ITU-T and CCITT concern commendation in the
area of telephone and data communications.
6. ITU-T has four classes of members:
National governments.
Sector members.
Associate members.
Regulatory agencies.
ITU-T has 200 governmental members, 500 sector
members .
Associate members are smaller organizations that are
interested in a particular Study Group(14 study group who did
real work from telephone billing to multimedia services).
Regulatory agencies are the people who guard telecom
business
The task of ITU-T is to make commendation to
telephone, telegraph, and data communication Interfaces
7. ISO (International standards Organization ) produce
International standard.ISO is a voluntary nontreaty
organization founded in 1946.
It contains 89 national standards organizations of the 89
member countries as its members.
ISO has nearly 200 Technical committees (TC) based on
various subjects .Each TC has a Sub Committee(SC). Each SC
has divided into several Work Group(WG)(real work is done
by WG).
ISO is a member of ITU-T.
The U.S. representative in ISO is ANSI (American
National Standards Institute).
8. Procedure used by ISO for approving standard:
WG is formed to come up with CD(Committee Draft).
If it is approved DIS is produced (Draft International
Standard).
DIS circulated for comments and votes ,based on it final
document of IS(International Standard) be published.
9. USA – NIST (National Institute of Standards and
Technology) part of the U.S. Department of Commerce – issues
standards for the US Government.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) –
standardization group worldwide provide many development
in the area of electrical engineering and computing
Following table shows you the several IEEE 802
standards of IEEE 802 committee
11. The worldwide Internet has own standardization
mechanism, it is different from ITU-T and ISO.
In 1983 informal committee created by DOD to watch
over ARPANAET was IAB (Internet Architecture Board) .
IAB ‘s Task force members (10 members) take part in
resolving the important issues.
Feedback to DOD and NSF was produced at the meeting
organized by IAB.
12. When a product need a standard:
IAB members announce the change.
The graduate student implement the software effort.
RFC (Request For Comments) technical report play a
major part.
This RFC is fetched from online by this site
www.ietf.org/rfc by anyone .
There are more then 3000 RFC are available.
13. Stages of RFC standard:
The basic idea is explained.
A working implementation (Draft Standard )is thoroughly
tested few independent sites for a 4 months.
If reviews are possible the idea is granted by IBA.
The idea is brought out by IBA.
Then the RFC is granted to Internet standards.
Some Internet Standards have become DOD standards
(MIL-STD)