ISO/IEC JTC1

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ISO/IEC JTC 1 is Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It deals with all matters of information technology.

It was formed in 1987 as a merger between ISO/TC 97 (Information Technology) and IEC/TC 83, with IEC//SC 47B joining later. The intent was to bring together in a single Committee the then Information Technology standardization activities of the two parent organizations.

Its official mandate is to develop, maintain, promote and facilitate IT standards required by global markets meeting business and user requirements concerning

the design and development of IT systems and tools
the performance and quality of IT products and systems
the security of IT systems and information
the portability of application programs
the interoperability of IT products and systems
the unified tools and environments
the harmonized IT vocabulary, and
the user-friendly and ergonomically-designed user interfaces.

Membership is open to any national body, in much the same way as membership in either of the two parent organizations. A member can be either participating (P) or observing (O) and the difference is mainly the ability to vote on proposed standards and other products. Other organisations participate as Liaison Members, some internal to ISO/IEC and some external. There is no requirement for any member body to maintain either (or any) status on all of the sub-committees. Although rare, sub-committees can be created to deal with new situations (SC 37 was approved in 2002) or disbanded if the area of work is no longer relevant.

Membership greatly expanded in August and September 2007, just prior to the initial vote on Office Open XML as DIS (Draft International Standard) 29500.^{[citation needed]}

Subcommittees

Most work is done by subcommittees dealing with a particular field. Subcommittees include:

SC 02: Coded character sets
SC 06: Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
SC 07: Software and systems engineering
SC 17: Cards and personal identification
SC 22: Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
SC 23: Digitally Recorded Media for Information Interchange and Storage
SC 24: Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation
SC 25 [1]: Interconnection of information technology equipment
SC 27: IT Security techniques
SC 28: Office equipment
SC 29: Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information
SC 31: Automatic identification and data capture techniques
SC 32: Data management and interchange
SC 34: Document description and processing languages
SC 35: User interfaces
SC 36: Information technology for learning, education and training
SC 37: Biometrics