Industry Participation

Through its history, SHARE has established and maintained an impressive record of active participation in a number of standards bodies and industry consortia that influenced the development of standards. The following are some of the industry standards bodies to which SHARE has contributed.

National and International Standards Management Groups help formulate and vote on national and international positions and set direction for standards development

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• International Committee for Information Technology Standardization
• U.S. Advisory Body to JTC 1 (JTC 1 TAG)
• ISO/IEC JTC 1 -Joint Technology Committee on Information Technology of ISO and IEC (ISO/IEC JTC 1)
• Industry Cooperation on Standards and Conformity Assessment (ICSCA)

Conformity Assessment and Interoperability develop and establish policies and mechanisms to ensure conformity of implementations to standards and ensure interoperability of implementations

• ISO Conformity Assessment Policy Committee (CASCO)
• International Conformity Assessment Committee (ICAC)
• JTC 1 Conformity Assessment and Interoperability Rapporteur Group (CAI-RG)

Information Technology Access develop standards for universal accessibility for Information Technology hardware and software

• INCITS IT Access Interfaces

Internet and World Wide Web develop specifications, help establish policies and mechanisms

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• IETF Calendaring and Scheduling Committee
• World Wide Web Committe (W3C)

Internationalization and Multibyte Character Set Standards develop specifications and standards to ensure a single multibyte character set which can support multiple codes and languages

• International Committee Multibyte Character Set Standards
• JTC 1 Conformity Assessment and Interoperability Rapporteur Group (CAI-RG)
• The UNICODE Consortium

JAVA Standardization work to progress the Java specification to a standard and internationalize it

• Java Study Group
• National Java Committee
• ECMA standards group newly-formed committee on Java

Storage Networking Standards develop specifications and standards to enable interoperability for SAN and networked storage implementations

• Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Security Techniques develop specification and standards for security architectures and tools across all computing implementations

• INCITS Security Techniques (INCITS/T4)
• JTC 1 International Committee on Security Techniques (JTC 1/SC 27)

Software License Management develop and establish standards to manage software license and use

• The Open Group XSLM