Network Standardization

ISO

International Organization of Standardization (ISO)

• develops and publishes international standards, including those for networking

• Examples:

  • ISO/IEC 27000-series (Information Security Management Systems)

  • ISO/IEC 20000 (IT Service Management)

  • ISO/IEC 11801 (Cabling Standards for Networking)

  • ISO/IEC 7498-1 (Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model)

IANA

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

• coordinates IP address allocation, DNS namespace, protocol and port assignment

• now under ICANN

ICANN

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

oversees the functions of IANA and Internet globally

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

• develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards

• does this via Request For Comment posts (RFC), which serve as the guidelines that comprise Internet protocols

• Examples:

  • RFC 791 (Internet Protocol, IP)

  • RFC 793 (Transmission Control Protocol, TCP)

  • RFC 2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP)

  • RFC 1918 (Address Allocation for Private Internets)

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Develops international standards for various industries, including telecommunications, information technology, and power generation.

• Examples:

  • IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet Standard for Wired LANs)

  • IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi Wireless LAN Standards)

  • IEEE 802.15.1 (Standard for Bluetooth Wireless Technology)

  • IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN Tagging Protocol)

ANSI

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

• Oversees the creation and dissemination of norms and standards in the United States.

• Examples:

  • ANSI/ISA-95 - Enterprise-Control System Integration

  • ANSI C63.4 - Radio-Noise Emissions Measurement

  • ANSI/TIA-568 - Structured Cabling

  • ANSI X3.4-1968 - ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

TIA

• Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

  • Develop standards for telecommunications products and services in the United States.

  • Examples:

    • TIA-568 - Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard

    • TIA-607 - Generic Telecommunications Bonding and Grounding (Earthing) for Customer Premises

    • TIA-942 - Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers

FCC

• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

  • Regulates interstate and international communications radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in the United States.

  • ISM, U-NII 1-8

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• An international group that developing open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web.

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

Basically the ISO for electronics and electrical technologies

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

• Produces internationally applicable standards for information and communications technologies (ICT), in Europe.

ITU

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• An agency of the United Nations concerned with information and communication technologies.

• Examples:

  • ITU-T G.709 (Interfaces for the Optical Transport Network) *ITU-T G.9959 (Short-range wireless devices)

  • ITU-T H.264 (Advanced video coding for generic audiovisual services)