Technical standards are also known as international standards. They are developed by international organizations, including Codex Alimentarius in food, the World Health Organization Guidelines in health, or ITU Recommendations in ICT. They are publicly funded, freely available for consideration, and used globally.
What is the Purpose of Technical Standards?
Technical standards or international standards are used either by direct application or by a process to edit a worldwide standard to fulfill local conditions. Choosing these standards results in the creation of equivalent, national standards that are same as international standards in technical content. They might include
1. Editorial changes as to appearance, symbols use as well as dimension units, replacement of a point for a comma as the decimal marker
2. Disputes resulting from conflicts in governmental regulators or industry-specific needs that might be caused by fundamental climate, geographical, technological, or infrastructural factors, or the stringency of safety needs.
International standards or technical standards worldwide are the method to overcome technical barriers in global business caused by variances among technical regulations as well as standards developed individually as well as separately by nations, national standard organizations, or companies. Technical hurdles arise when different groups join and each with a large user base, doing some established thing that is mutually incompatible. These established standards are the way to prevent or overcome this issue.
There are a number of technical standard organizations involved in it. Take a look at some of these organizations
• 3GPP – 3rd Generation Partnership Project
• ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• CFA – Compact flash association
• DMTF – Distributed Management Task Force
• AHRI - Air-conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute
• HGI – Home Gateway Initiative
• FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• CIE – International Commission on Illumination
• HFSB – Hedge Fund Standards Board
• IATA – International Air Transport Association
• IFSWF – International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds
• IMO – International Maritime Organization
• ITU – The International Telecommunication Union
• OGC – Open Geospatial Consortium
• OMA – Open Mobile Alliance
• OMG – Object Management Group
• OASIS – Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
• SAI – Social Accountability International
• SDA – Secure Digital Association
• TM Forum – Telemanagement Forum
• SMPTE – Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
• TIA – Telecommunications Industry Association
• WMO – World Meteorological Organization
• W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
• XSF – The XMPP Standards Foundation
And, the list goes on.