Basics
A Generally accepted formal technical document for products, procedures, and policies.
What is a Standard?
Accreditation of consensus procedures, neutral oversight, approval process, appeals process, and procedural audits helps define this.
What is American National Standards?
ISO film speed code; banking and telephone cards are examples.
What are Product-/Design-Based Standards?
Developed by a group of organizations which may consist of individuals, companies, government agencies, educational institutions or any combination of those who agree to work together to solve a specific market need.?
What are Consortia Standards?
This is a term that means that a substantial agreement has been reached. It signifies more than a simple majority but not neccesarily unanimity.
What is Consensus?
An Umbrella term for standards and conformity assessment, or compliance to them.
What is Standardization?
What is ANSI?
Safety of wire ropes; safety of toys are examples.
What are Performance-Based Standards?
Example of a Consortia that develops standards that facilitate the long-term growth of the web.
What is World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)?
Participation shall be open to anyone materially interested by the activity in question.
What is Openness?
A Demonstrating that the requirements of the standard have been fulfilled.
What is Conformity Assessment?
What is False?
ISO 9000 Quality and Environmental Management Systems are examples.
What are Management System Standards?
These types of members of ISO and IEC committees can submit votes and/or comments on all matters coming before the committee.
What is a Participating ("P") member?
Participation shall be open to anyone materially interested by the activity in question.
What is balance?
What is Bottoms Up/US Standards System?
This is an organization that plays an important role in conformity assessment activities, assessing the competence of conformity assessment bodies.
Financial planners is an example.
What are Certification Standards?
These types of members in ISO and IEC committees can monitor the technical work.
What is an observer "O" member?
Any person (organization, company, government agency, individual, etc.) with a direct and material interest has a right to participate.
What is Due Process?
A type of standard developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies, through the use of a voluntary consensus standards development process.
What is a voluntary consensus standard?
What is ISO and IEC?
Modern keyboard is an example.
What is a De Facto Standard?
These are mirror committees to ISO and IEC committees in US
The standards development process shall not be dominated by any single interest, individual, or organization.
What is Lack of Dominance?