Resources: Acronyms
  Acronym Meaning Web Address
  ABA American Bankers Association www.aba.com
  AFNOR Association Francaise de Normalisation (National Body of France) www.afnor.fr
  AG CEN General Assembly  
  AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group www.aiag.org
  AIF ANSI's International Advisory Committee Forum  
  ANSI American National Standards Institute (National Body of the United States) www.ansi.org
  APEC Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation group  
  B10 Subcommittee of NCITS for Identification Cards  
  BSI British Standards Institute (National Body of the United Kingdom) www.bsi.org.uk
  BT Technical Board  
  BTS Technical Sector Boards  
  CA (or CoA) IEC Committee of Action  
  CD Committee Draft  
  CDV Committee Draft for Vote  
  CE Mark Harmonized European mark for indicating conformance to relevant EU Directives  
  CEC Commission of European Communities  
  CEN Comité Européen Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization) www.cenorm.be
  CENELEC Comité Européen Normalisation Electrotechnique (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) www.cenelec.be
  CEPT European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations www.cept.org
  CO Central Office  
  COPANT Pan American Standards Commission  
  CS Central Secretariat  
  DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung (National Body of the Germany) www.din.de
  DIS Draft International Standard  
  DISA Data Interchange Standards Association www.disa.org
  DoC Department of Commerce  
  DoD Department of Defense  
  DSRC Dedicated Short Range Communications  
  EBU European Broadcasting Union  
  EC European Commission  
  EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport  
  EEA European Economic Area  
  EETIS Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication, Information Technology Sectors  
  EFTA European Free Trade Association  
  EG ETSI Guides  
  EN European Standard (i.e., European Norm)  
  ENV European Pre-standard  
  EOTC European Organization for Testing and Certification  
  ERC European Radiocommunications Committee www.ero.dk/eroweb/erc.html
  ERO European Radiocommunications Office www.ero.dk
  ETS European Telecommunications Standard  
  ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute www.etsi.org
  EU European Union  
  EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems  
  FCC Federal Communications Commission www.fcc.gov
  FCD Final Committee Draft  
  FDIS Final Draft International Standard  
  GA ISO or IEC General Assembly  
  GSM Global System for Mobile Communication  
  HD Harmonization Document  
  HoD Head of Delegation  
  IAC ANSI's International Advisory Committee  
  IATA International Air Transport Association www.iata.org
  IEC International Electrotechnical Commission www.iec.ch
  I-ETS Interim European Telecommunications Standard  
  IMO International Maritime Organization  
  IS International Standard  
  ISO International Organization for Standardization www.iso.ch
  ITI Information Technology Industry Council (Administrator for JTC1 TAG) www.itic.com
  ITTF Internationational Technology Task Force (JTC 1 Administrator)  
  ITU International Telecommunications Union www.itu.int
  JCG Joint ISO/CEN Coordinating Group of the Technical Boards  
  JCP The Joint Presidents group, i.e. the presidents and chief executive officers of CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI.  
  JPBMA Japan Business Machine Manufacturers Association  
  JTC 1 Joint Technical Committee 1 (Standards relating to information technology)  
  JTC1 ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology www.jtc1.org
  JTC1 TAG JTC1 Technical Advisory Group (forms US positions for international presentation) www.jtc1tag.org
  MCG IEC/CENELEC Management Coordination Group  
  MRA Mutual Recognition Agreement  
  NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization  
  NB National Body  
  NC National Committee  
  NCITS National Committee for Information Technology Standards (formerly X3) www.ncits.org
  NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology www.nist.gov
  NNI Nederlands Normalisatie-instituut (Dutch Standards Organization) www.nni.nl
  NP New work item proposal  
  NSB National Standards Body  
  NVCASE National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation  
  PASC Pacific Area Standards Congress  
  PC Programming Committee  
  PQ Primary Questionnaire  
  pr ETS Preliminary European Telecommunications Standard  
  pr HD Preliminary Harmonization Document  
  pr I-ETS Preliminary Interim European Telecommunications Standard  
  prEN Preliminary European Standard  
  prENV Preliminary European Pre-standard  
  PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network  
  PTT Postal, Telephone and Telegraph  
  RA Registration Authority  
  RES Radio Equipment and Systems  
  SAA Standards Australia (National Body of Australia) www.standards.com.au
  SC Subcommittee  
  SC17 JTC1 Subcommittee 17 on Identification cards www.funkster.com/ossian
  SC31 JTC1 Subcommittee 31 on Automatic Identification www.uc-council.org/sc31/home.htm
  SR Reporting Secretariat  
  SRD Short Range Device  
  T6 Subcommittee of NCITS for noncontact systems interface  
  TAG Technical Advisory Group  
  TC Technical Committee  
  TC224 CEN Technical Committee 224 on Machine Readable Cards  
  TC225 CEN Technical Committee 225 on Bar Coding  
  TC251 CEN Technical Committee on Medical Informatics  
  TC278 CEN Technical Committee 278 on Road Transport and traffic telematics  
  TC68 ISO/IEC Technical Committee 68 on banking, securities, and other financial services  
  TF Task Force  
  TMB ISO Technical Management Board  
  TSP Technical Study Proposal (i.e., proposal for a new area of technical work in either ISO or IEC.)  
  UAP Unique Acceptance Procedure  
  UN United Nations  
  UPU Universal Postal Union www.upu.int
  USNC U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission  
  VA Vienna Agreement  
  WD Working Draft  
  WG Working Group  
  WGn Working Group n of an ISO subcommittee. Working group numbers may change from time to time.  
  WI Work Item  
  WTO World Trade Organization  
  X12 ANSI accredited committee on electronic business data exchange (EDI)  
  RTLS Real Time Location Systems - A technique for installing a type of RF tag on assets and using multiple receivers to identify and locate the tags, usually in a local area environment.