W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is:

To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

W3C Develops Web Standards and Guidelines :

W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines. Since 1994, W3C has published more than 110 such standards, called W3C Recommendations. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software, and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web. In order for the Web to reach its full potential, the most fundamental Web technologies must be compatible with one another and allow any hardware and software used to access the Web to work together. W3C refers to this goal as “Web interoperability.” By publishing open (non-proprietary) standards for Web languages and protocols, W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus Web fragmentation.

Tim Berners-Lee and others created W3C as an industry consortium dedicated to building consensus around Web technologies. Mr. Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has served as the W3C Director since W3C was founded, in 1994.

W3C Is an International Consortium :

Organizations located all over the world and involved in many different fields join W3C to participate in a vendor-neutral forum for the creation of Web standards. W3C Members and a dedicated full-time staff of technical experts have earned W3C international recognition for its contributions to the Web. W3C Members (sample testimonials), staff, and Invited Experts work together to design technologies to ensure that the Web will continue to thrive in the future, accommodating the growing diversity of people, hardware, and software.

W3C's global initiatives also include nurturing liaisons with national, regional and international organizations around the globe. These contacts help W3C maintain a culture of global participation in the development of the World Wide Web. W3C coordinates particularly closely with other organizations that are developing standards for the Web or Internet in order to enable clear progress. The document Worldwide Participation in the World Wide Web Consortium summarizes W3C efforts in broading our international impact; see our international relations home for more information.

UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommu. System

Mobile broadband is changing the way the world communicates. The UMTS Forum helps all players in this dynamic new value chain understand and profit from the opportunities of 3G/UMTS networks and their Long Term Evolution (LTE).

The UMTS Forum participates actively in the work of the ITU, ETSI, 3GPP and CEPT as well as other technical and commercial organisations globally. It also contributes to the timely licensing and deployment of mobile broadband globally through regular dialogue with regulators and responses to public consultations.

The UMTS Forum supports the interests of its membership with a range of studies, reports and other outputs. Principal focus areas include markets trends, mobile broadband services and applications, key growth markets, spectrum & regulation, technology & implementation. A strong promotional voice is maintained via a high-profile presence at conferences, seminars and workshops as well as regular briefings to the media, analysts and other stakeholders.

Membership of the UMTS Forum draws together everyone with an interest in mobile broadband, including network operators, regulators and the manufacturers of network infrastructure and terminal equipment.

WaSP - The Web Standards Project

Founded in 1998, The Web Standards Project (WaSP) fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web. We work with browser companies, authoring tool makers, and our peers to deliver the true power of standards to this medium.

WaSP: Fighting for Standards

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call “web standards,” are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web. Please see the sidebar for details.

Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market.

It sounds so straightforward and makes so much sense. So what’s the problem? And why is there a Web Standards Project?

The Problem

Though leading browser makers have been involved in the creation of web standards since W3C was formed, for many years compliance was observed in the breach. By releasing browsers that failed to uniformly support standards, manufacturers needlessly fragmented the Web, injuring designers, developers, users, and businesses alike.

Lack of uniform support for key W3C standards left consumers frustrated: when using the “wrong” browser, many could not view content or perform desired transactions. Among those most frequently hurt were people with disabilities or special needs.

Quandaries and Costs

At the same time, lack of uniform support for key W3C standards left designers, developers and site owners in a terrible quandary: could they afford to implement multiple versions of every web page in order to accommodate incompatible browsers? If not, which browsers should they neglect, and how many millions of potential visitors were they willing to turn away? Either way, the cost was too high. It still is.

The fractured browser market added at least 25% to the cost of developing all sites. Through lack of budget, many developers produced sites that locked out potential customers. Many developers who knew about standards saw no point in developing sites for browsers that did not support them. Others knew little or nothing about standards—and many still don’t, including those at multi-million-dollar agencies who seem to grasp ASP, Java, Flash MX, and .Net, yet understand almost nothing about structural and semantic markup, style sheets, and the importance of separating structure from presentation.

Some designers, stymied by browser incompatibility, deliberately excluded all but the oldest and most universal web technologies from their sites. Such sites often succeeded at functioning in all desktop browsers, but at the cost of limited consumer appeal and functionality.

Others relied on visual editors and publishing tools to generate multiple layers of markup and code optimized for the quirks of various popular browsers. This wasted money as well as bandwidth, and often generated sites that stopped working in the next generation of browsers (and never worked at all in alternative browsers or devices, from screen readers to Lynx to handhelds to less popular browsers such as Opera). The Web is littered with the corpses of once–impressive sites that cannot function in contemporary browsers or devices. Making matters worse, such sites are still being created every day.

Some designers became so frustrated they turned their backs on web standards altogether, and began to develop exclusively in proprietary environments. Though rich in creative potential, such technologies suffer from lack of broad accessibility, and fail to provide for common needs such as bookmarking, printing, copying and pasting, and other tasks web users must perform on informational and transactional sites.

Born of Necessity

In response to these problems, The Web Standards Project (WaSP) was formed in 1998 with the goal of promoting core web standards and encouraging browser makers to do the same, thereby ensuring simple, affordable access for all.

Though our message initially met with resistance (particularly from browser companies’ marketing and P.R. departments), eventually we prevailed—in part because engineers at many browser companies agreed with us and saw WaSP as an ally in their internal battles with management.

Beginning in 2000, one leading browser after another delivered on the promise of many of the standards we had (sometimes shrilly) promoted. Current market-leading browsers, along with several of their competitors, provide excellent support for HTML 4, Compatible XHTML 1.0, CSS Level 1, ECMAScript (the standard version of JavaScript), and the DOM—or are on the road to such compliance.

Thanks to these browsers, designers and developers are finally free to build with XHTML and CSS, and in most cases can separate structure from presentation to maximize portability and accessibility. With care, designers and developers may also use the W3C standard DOM to add sophisticated behavior to their sites.

So what’s the problem, and why is there still a Web Standards Project?

Challenges Ahead

Though today’s browsers support standards, tens of thousands of professional designers and developers continue to use outdated methods that yoke structure to presentation, in some cases entirely avoiding semantic structures and misusing (X)HTML as a design tool. Highly paid professionals continue to churn out invalid, inaccessible sites filled with structurally meaningless markup, huge image maps, excessively nested tables, and outdated detection scripts that cause the very usability problems they were originally intended to prevent.

Many books on web development still teach outdated methods, and many practitioners take pride in delivering sites that look and work exactly the same in compliant and non–compliant desktop browsers alike, at the cost of accessibility, long–term viability, forward compatibility, and lack of alternative device support. Others develop proprietary code that works only in a handful of popular browsers.

Thus one of WaSP’s primary goals is to provide educational resources that can help our peers learn standards-compliant methods that are in their interest and that of their clients and site users.

Many professionals accomplish their work by means of visual editing environments developed at the height of the Browser Wars. As mentioned above, such tools by default create invalid, non-semantic sites optimized for 4.0 browser quirks instead of standards. In 2002, two leading visual editors vastly improved their support for web standards and accessibility (one of them with help from The Web Standards Project). But to make use of these improvements, professionals must learn the basics and benefits of designing and building with web standards. This again points to the need for developer education.

Clients and site managers also need this information if they seek to create sites that are accessible in today’s browsers and devices and will remain viable as browsers and devices evolve. It is WaSP’s hope that, once informed of the benefits standards provide, site owners will stop viewing their sites as a species of print advertising that must look exactly the same in all environments. And that they will focus instead on delivering appropriate content and functionality within the context of presentations that may vary slightly according to the needs and capabilities of differing browsers and devices.

Standards Australia

Standards Australia is the nation’s peak non-government Standards organisation. It is charged by the Commonwealth Government to meet Australia’s need for contemporary, internationally aligned Standards and related services.

The work of Standards Australia enhances the nation’s economic efficiency, international competitiveness and contributes to community demand for a safe and sustainable environment.

It leads and promotes a respected and unbiased Standards development process ensuring all competing interests are heard, their points of view considered and consensus reached.

Standards Australia also recognises, rewards and promotes excellence in design and innovation through the Australian International Design Awards program and other design promotion initiatives.

Our four key areas:

1. National and International Standards Information and Coordination
Standards Australia is the central point for government, industry and the community to find information about non-government consensus Standards in Australia and around the world, and how to participate in their development.

2. Accreditation of Standards Development Organisations
Standards Australia supports the accreditation of other Standards Development Organisations through the Accreditation Board for Standards Development Organisations (ABSDO). This highly autonomous body independently assesses and approves other organisations such as industry associations to develop Australian Standards.

3. Standards Development
A range of development pathways is offered to stakeholders looking to develop new or update existing Standards.

4. Design Assessment and Promotion
Standards Australia operates one of the world’s leading design assessment programs through its Australian International Design Awards (AIDA). With more than 50 years of benchmarking excellence in design and innovation, the AIDA is charged with fostering a culture of design and innovation in Australia.

To view a brochure about Standards Australia click here or contact us to request a hard copy be mailed to you.

Standards Australia's Commitment

Standards Australia's Commitment, details the organisation's pledge to quality Australian Standards ®. Standards Australia's commitment includes to:

• Work for the Net Benefit of the Australian community;
• Provide national leadership and public access to Standards development;
• Represent Australia’s interests internationally;
• Promote Standardisation;
• Use good regulatory principles and behave legally and ethically;
• Engage with all stakeholders;
• Ensure balance on committees and transparency of interests;
• Adhere to consensus and governance processes;
• Accredit other Standards development organisations; and
• Continuous improvement.

Acknowledging our Committee Members

Our Technical Committee members are the lifeblood of standardisation. They willingly give their time and expertise to advance the principles and practices of standardisation. Their contribution to Australia's well-being cannot be overestimated. Although they give their time freely, it is estimated that their contribution is worth more than $30 million per year to the national interest.

A Permanent Audio Induction Loop is available in six of our meeting rooms in accordance with the Australian Standard AS 60118.4 2007.

OMA - Open Mobile Alliance

OMA is the leading industry forum for developing market driven, interoperable mobile service enablers.

OMA was formed in June 2002 by nearly 200 companies including the world's leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content and service providers. The fact that the whole value chain is represented in OMA marks a change in the way specifications for mobile services are done. Rather than keeping the traditional approach of organizing activities around 'technology silos', with different standards and specifications bodies representing different mobile technologies, working independently, OMA is aiming to consolidate into one organization all specification activities in the service enabler space.

OMA is the focal point for the development of mobile service enabler specifications, which support the creation of interoperable end-to-end mobile services. OMA drives service enabler architectures and open enabler interfaces that are independent of the underlying wireless networks and platforms. OMA creates interoperable mobile data service enablers that work across devices, service providers, operators, networks, and geographies. Toward that end, OMA will develop test specifications, encourage third party tool development, and conduct test activities that allow vendors to test their implementations.

OMA has pioneered significant consolidation of mobile service enabler organizations with the integration of the WAP Forum, Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), SyncML Initiative, MMS-IOP (Multimedia Messaging Interoperability Process), Wireless Village, Mobile Gaming Interoperability Forum (MGIF), and the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum (MWIF) into OMA. This consolidation promotes end-to-end interoperability across different devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks, and further supports OMA's market and user requirements focus to guide the specification work.

Significant new work in OMA is leading to the development of mobile service enablers in areas such as Device Management, Push-to-talk Over Cellular, Mobile Broadcast, and more.

The Goals of OMA :

1. Deliver high quality, open technical specifications based upon market requirements that drive modularity, extensibility, and consistency amongst enablers to reduce industry implementation efforts.
2. Ensure OMA service enabler specifications provide interoperability across different devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks; facilitate interoperability of the resulting product implementations.
3. Be the catalyst for the consolidation of standards activity within the mobile data service industry; working in conjunction with other existing standards organizations and industry fora to improve interoperability and decrease operational costs for all involved.
4. Provide value and benefits to members in OMA from all parts of the value chain including content and service providers, information technology providers, mobile operators and wireless vendors such that they elect to actively participate in the organization.

The Parlay Group

The Parlay Group is a multi-vendor consortium formed to develop open, technology-independent application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable the development of applications that operate across multiple, networking-platform environments. Parlay integrates intelligent network (IN) services with IT applications via a secure, measured, and billable interface. By releasing developers from underlying code, networks, and environments, Parlay open APIs allow for innovation within the enterprise. Parlay-based portable, network-independent applications are connecting the IT and telecom worlds, generating new revenue streams for network operators, application service providers (ASPs), and independent software vendors (ISVs). Mission :

• Define, establish, and support a common specification for industry-standard APIs.
  

• Facilitate the production of test suites and reference code in multiple technologies that enable developers to create related products and services that operate across wireless, Internet-protocol (IP), and public-switched networks.
  

• Provide an environment in which Parlay Group Members can approve suggested revisions and enhancements that evolve the initial specifications; to make appropriate submissions to established agencies and bodies with the purpose of ratifying these specifications as an international standard; and, to provide a forum in which users can meet with developers and providers of products and services to identify requirements for interoperability and general usability.
  

• Educate the business and consumer communities as to the value, benefits, and applications for the Parlay APIs through publicity, publications, trade show demonstrations, seminars, and other programs established by the Parlay Group.
  

• Support the creation and implementation of uniform conformance test procedures and processes, which assure that Parlay API implementations are compliant with the specifications.

IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The IETF Mission Statement is documented in RFC 3935.

The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.). Much of the work is handled via mailing lists. The IETF holds meetings three times per year.

The IETF working groups are grouped into areas, and managed by Area Directors, or ADs. The ADs are members of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Providing architectural oversight is the Internet Architecture Board, (IAB). The IAB also adjudicates appeals when someone complains that the IESG has failed. The IAB and IESG are chartered by the Internet Society (ISOC) for these purposes. The General Area Director also serves as the chair of the IESG and of the IETF, and is an ex-officio member of the IAB.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols. The IANA is chartered by the Internet Society (ISOC) to act as the clearinghouse to assign and coordinate the use of numerous Internet protocol parameters.

First-time attendees might find it helpful to read The Tao of the IETF, also available as RFC 4677. First-time attendees may also want to visit the Education (EDU) Team Web site where information and presentations on IETF roles and processes are available.

Finally, you may want to visit the IETF Information Available for Download Web page.

Any submission to the IETF intended by the Contributor for publication as all or part of an IETF Internet-Draft or RFC and any statement made within the context of an IETF activity is considered an "IETF Contribution". Such statements include oral statements in IETF sessions, as well as written and electronic communications made at any time or place, which are addressed to:

-the IETF plenary session,
-any IETF working group or portion thereof,
-the IESG or any member thereof on behalf of the IESG,
-the IAB or any member thereof on behalf of the IAB,
-any IETF mailing list, including the IETF list itself, any working group or design team list, or any other list functioning under IETF auspices,
-the RFC Editor or the Internet-Drafts function

All IETF Contributions are subject to the rules of RFC 5378 and RFC 3979 (updated by RFC 4879).

Statements made outside of an IETF session, mailing list or other function, that are clearly not intended to be input to an IETF activity, group or function, are not IETF Contributions in the context of this notice. Please consult RFC 5378 and RFC 3979 for details.

A participant in any IETF activity is deemed to accept all IETF rules of process, as documented in Best Current Practices RFCs and IESG Statements.

A participant in any IETF activity acknowledges that written, audio and video records of meetings may be made and may be available to the public.

ITU - International Telecommunication Union

ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology issues, and the global focal point for governments and the private sector in developing networks and services. For nearly 145 years, ITU has coordinated the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promoted international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, worked to improve telecommunication infrastructure in the developing world, established the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communications systems and addressed the global challenges of our times, such as mitigating climate change and strengthening cybersecurity.

ITU also organizes worldwide and regional exhibitions and forums, such as ITU TELECOM WORLD, bringing together the most influential representatives of government and the telecommunications and ICT industry to exchange ideas, knowledge and technology for the benefit of the global community, and in particular the developing world.

From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.

ITU is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its membership includes 191 Member States and more than 700 Sector Members and Associates.

IEEE

A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.

The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E).

Who IEEE Serves :

Through its global membership, IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others.

Members rely on IEEE as a source of technical and professional information, resources and services.

To foster an interest in the engineering profession, IEEE also serves student members in colleges and universities around the world.

Other important constituencies include prospective members and organizations that purchase IEEE products and participate in conferences or other IEEE programs.

IEEE Quick Facts :

• more than 375,000 members including nearly 80,000 student members in more than 160 countries
• 324 sections in ten geographic regions worldwide
• 1,784 chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests
• 1,616 student branches and 452 student branch chapters at colleges and universities in 80 countries
• 38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of technical interests
• 390 affinity groups consisting of Consultants' Network, Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering (WIE) and Life Members (LM) groups
• nearly 1,300 standards and projects under development
• more than 1.7 million documents in the IEEE/IET Electronic Library
• publishes a total of 144 transactions, journals and magazines
• sponsors more than 850 conferences annually

ISO - International Organization for Standardization

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards.

ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 161 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.

ISO is a non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors. On the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations.

Therefore, ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society.

ISO's Name :

Because "International Organization for Standardization" would have different acronyms in different languages ("IOS" in English, "OIN" in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), its founders decided to give it also a short, all-purpose name. They chose "ISO", derived from the Greek isos, meaning "equal". Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of the organization's name is always ISO.

Why standards matter :

Standards make an enormous and positive contribution to most aspects of our lives.

Standards ensure desirable characteristics of products and services such as quality, environmental friendliness, safety, reliability, efficiency and interchangeability - and at an economical cost.

When products and services meet our expectations, we tend to take this for granted and be unaware of the role of standards. However, when standards are absent, we soon notice. We soon care when products turn out to be of poor quality, do not fit, are incompatible with equipment that we already have, are unreliable or dangerous.

When products, systems, machinery and devices work well and safely, it is often because they meet standards. And the organization responsible for many thousands of the standards which benefit the world is ISO.

When standards are absent, we soon notice.

ISO standards:

• make the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services more efficient, safer and cleaner
• facilitate trade between countries and make it fairer
• provide governments with a technical base for health, safety and environmental legislation, and conformity assessment
• share technological advances and good management practice
• disseminate innovation
• safeguard consumers, and users in general, of products and services
• make life simpler by providing solutions to common problems

ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for ICT (Information and Communications Technologies), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and internet technologies.

We are officially recognized by the EC (European Commission) as a European Standards Organization. The high quality of our work and our open approach to standardization has helped us evolve into a 'European roots - global branches' operation with a solid reputation for technical excellence.

ETSI is a not-for-profit organization with more than 700 member organizations drawn from over 60 countries world-wide.

Thanks to globalization, our members operate in an increasingly international and competitive environment.

An independent organization based in the technical park of Sophia Antipolis in the south of France, we are committed to serving our members and assisting in the development of their market potential.

We are also active in vital areas related to standardization such as interoperability, including protocol testing and methodology and we also offer forum-hosting services.

ETSI unites:

• Manufacturers
• Network operators
• National Administrations
• Service providers
• Research bodies
• User groups
• Consultancies.

This cooperation has resulted in a steady stream of highly successful ICT standards in Mobile, Fixed, and Radio communications and a range of other standards that cross these boundaries, including:

• Security
• Satellite
• Broadcast
• Human Factors
• Testing & Protocols
• Intelligent transport
• Power-line telecoms
• eHEALTH
• Smart Cards
• Emergency communications
• GRID
• and many more.

ETSI is consensus-based and conducts its work through Technical Committees, which produce our standards and specifications, with the ETSI General Assembly and Board guiding the Secretariat towards its Vision and Mission.

EIA - Electronic Industries Alliance

The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) is a high-tech association that represents the full spectrum of U.S. electronics and high-tech industry manufacturers. The Alliance is a partnership of electronic and high-tech associations and companies whose mission is promoting the market development and competitiveness of the U.S. high-tech industry through domestic and international policy efforts. EIA, headquartered in Arlington, Va., comprises nearly 1,300 member companies whose products and services range from the smallest electronic components to the most complex systems used by defense, space and industry, including the full range of consumer electronic products.

The progressive structure of the Alliance enables each sector association to preserve unique autonomy while uniting in common cause under EIA. EIA represents the Alliance on issues that the entire industry agrees are imperative to the success of high technology in the U.S. Our issue areas are forward-thinking, broad and market based, giving us the ability to advocate policy positions for the entire industry and ensuring our continued strength in the global economy. EIA focuses on the areas of innovation & global competitiveness , international trade and market access; the environment; Telecom and Information Technology Reform; and Cyber Security.

EIA is the only high-tech trade association that helps members navigate the array of global environmental policy issues affecting their ability to manufacture, market and sell their products. Our Environmental Issues Council leads the electronics industry in addressing national and international environmental policies surrounding our products.

EIA is also the only high-tech trade association that brings together members of the electronics industry, Fortune 500, e-commerce and Cyber Security arenas. Through a collaborative effort wth Carnegie Mellon's CERT/CC, , the Internet Security Alliance was established. Assisting EIA in filling the void for an industry-led, global, cross-sector network focused on advancing the security and survivability of the Internet. Members of the Internet Security Alliance represent every sector of industry.

CDMA Developer Group

The CDMA Development Group (CDG), founded in December 1993, is an international consortium of companies who have joined together to lead the adoption and evolution of 3G CDMA wireless systems around the world.

The CDG is comprised of CDMA service providers and manufacturers, application developers and content providers. By working together, the members help to ensure interoperability among systems, while expediting the availability of 3G CDMA technology to consumers.

Mission : To lead the rapid evolution and deployment of 3G CDMA-based systems, based on open standards and encompassing all core architectures, to meet the needs of markets around the world.

The CDG and its members work together to:

• Accelerate the definition of requirements for new CDMA features, services and applications
• Promote industry and public awareness of CDMA capabilities and developments through marketing and public relations activities
• Foster collaboration and the development of consensus among carriers on critical issues to provide direction and leadership for the industry
• Define the evolution path for current and next-generation CDMA systems
• Establish strategic relationships with government ministries, regulatory bodies, and worldwide standards and industry organizations to promote cooperation and consensus on issues facing the CDMA community
• Serve as the worldwide resource for CDMA-related information
• Minimize the time-to-market of new CDMA-based products and services
• Enable global compatibility and interoperability among CDMA systems worldwide
• Create global economies of scale to make CDMA the preferred choice of operators and end users

Organization :
The CDG is organized as follows:

• CxO Council – Senior leadership of CDMA operators at the CxO/President level. Provides strategic guidance of CDG programs
• Executive Board – Carrier/Manufacturer member decision-making body that sets direction and priorities
• CMO Council – Develops and executes strategic marketing initiatives to promote the success and value of CDMA2000
• CDG Advocacy Council – Determines strategic actions to promote CDMA2000® as the leading 3G technology
• Global Strategy Team – Executes strategies and plans determined by CDMA Advocacy Council
• Regional Interest Groups – Define needs specific to the region and execute activities to meet those needs
• CDG PR Council – Coordinates conferences, PR, and marketing activities of the CDG

BIS - Bureau of Indian Standards

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India, resolves to be the leader in all matters concerning Standardization, Certification and Quality.

In order to attain this, the Bureau would strive :

• To provide efficient timely service.
• To satify the customers' needs for quality of goods and services.
• To work and act in such a way that each task, performed as individuals or as corporate entity, leads to excellence and enhances the credibility and image of the Organization.

BIS would achieve these objectives by working in close cooperation with all concerned organizations and by adopting appropriate management systems, motivating and ensuring active participation of all the employees.

Bluetooth

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is a privately held, not-for-profit trade association. The Special Interest Group was founded in September 1998. The Bluetooth SIG itself does not make, manufacture, or sell Bluetooth enabled products. The main tasks for the Bluetooth SIG are to publish Bluetooth specifications, administer the qualification program, protect the Bluetooth trademarks and evangelize Bluetooth wireless technology.

The SIG has more than 12,000 member companies that are leaders in the telecommunications, computing, automotive, music, apparel, industrial automation, and network industries. SIG members drive development of Bluetooth wireless technology, and implement and market the technology in their products.

Bluetooth SIG Mission and Vision

The Mission Statement : Strengthen the Bluetooth brand by empowering SIG members to collaborate and innovate, creating the preferred wireless technology to connect diverse devices

The Vision Statement :

• The Bluetooth SIG will be the organization that defines and drives the adoption of the use cases and solutions for short-range wireless technology.
• Devices implementing short-range wireless technology will implement and adhere to the Bluetooth specifications and processes.
• Bluetooth wireless technology will be the most economically feasible short-range wireless technology to implement and will be the easiest to use.

Bluetooth Wireless Technology

Bluetooth wireless technology is the global short-range wireless standard for personal connectivity of a broad range of electronic devices. The technology is now available in its fourth version of the core specification and continues to develop, building on its inherent strengths – small-form factor radio, low power, low cost, built-in security, robustness, ease-of-use, and ad hoc networking abilities. More than five new Bluetooth enabled products are qualified every working day and 13 million Bluetooth units are shipping per week. The installed base of Bluetooth devices is 1.5 billion and climbing, making it the only proven choice for developers, product manufacturers, and consumers worldwide.

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

As the voice of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment system, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) empowers its members and constituents to strengthen the U.S. marketplace position in the global economy while helping to assure the safety and health of consumers and the protection of the environment.

The Institute oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector: from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. ANSI is also actively engaged in accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards – including globally-recognized cross-sector programs such as the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000 (environmental) management systems.

Mission : To enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Founded : October 19, 1918

Legal Status : A 501(c)3 private, not-for-profit organization

3GPP

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites telecommunications standards bodies - as “Organizational Partners”.

The original scope of 3GPP was to produce Technical Specifications and Technical Reports for a 3G Mobile System based on evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that they support (i.e., Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) modes).

The scope was subsequently amended to include the maintenance and development of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) Technical Specifications and Technical Reports including evolved radio access technologies (e.g. General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)).

3GPP was created in December 1998 by the signing of the "The 3rd Generation Partnership Project Agreement". The latest 3GPP Scope and Objectives document has evolved from this original Agreement.

The discussions that led to the signing of the 3GPP Agreement were recorded in a series of slides called the "Partnership Project Description" that describes the basic principles and ideas on which the project is based. The Partnership Project Description has not been maintained since its first creation but the principles of operation of the project still remain valid.