Article #3400 - ANSI
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) serves in the accrediting of standards organizations, as a publishing clearinghouse, and administrative aspects surrounding US standards participation; but ANSI does not develop standards.
ANSI, American National Standards Institute
| ANSI, American National Standards Institute | |
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| Overview |
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a privately funded federation of business and industry, standards developers, trade associations, labor unions, professional societies, consumers, academia, and government agencies. ANSI does not itself write standards. The United States National Committee of the IEC is a committee of ANSI representing US interests at the IEC. ANSI is also the sole US representative to the ISO organization. It sits as one of the five permanent members of the ISO governing council. |
| Significance for GridWise™ | Average for leadership and road-mapping of standards activities, networking. |
| Industry Sector(s) | All |
| Geopolitical Reach | US, International impact in IEC and ISO membership |
| Type of Standards Body | US National Standards Body |
| Relevant Standards and Work Groups |
Road-mapping and US standards strategy NSSN, National Standards System Network (ANSI resource detailing mostly ANSI-related SDOs) |
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Design Center |
National Standards Strategy for the US--calls for standards developers in all sectors to work with the appropriate governmental agencies to increase use of the voluntary consensus process. |
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Temporal Applicability |
To explore avenues of international standards related to GridWise, for contacts on USNC--advisory groups to IEC/ISO. |
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Interrelations |
Over 270 accredited SDOs in all. |
| Contact Information | ANSI, American National Standards Institute NSSN, National Standards Systems Network |