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About International Standards Standardizing Organizations
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The following Table shows the major international standardizing organizations. In the telecommunications field, the CCITT was established in 1865 and then switched to the ITU in 1993 as an international organization within the UN. The ISO is popularly known, but the IEC was founded earlier.
Major International Standardizing Organizations
| Name |
Fields |
Founded |
| ITU |
Telecommunications |
1865 (1993) |
| IEC |
Electrical, electronic and related technologies |
1906 |
| ISO |
Other than the above |
1947 |
| Note |
ITU : |
International Telecommunication Union |
| IEC : |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
| ISO : |
International Organization for Standardization |
Each country has a sole representative to each body. In Japan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Information and Communications Policy Bureau) is the representative to ITU and the JISC (Japanese Industrial Standardization Committee within the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) is the representative to IEC and ISO.
Technical Committees (TCs) carry out the standards work of the IEC or ISO in their respective scopes. In Japan, representatives to respective TCs are set up under JISC, e.g., a deliberative body for IEC and undertaking body for ISO.
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