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The American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) has served in its capacity as administrator and
coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary
standardization system for more than 80 years. Founded
in 1918 by five engineering societies and three government
agencies,the Institute remains a private, non-profit membership
organization supported by a diverse constituency of private
and public sector organizations. |
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| Throughout its history, the ANSI Federation has
maintained as its primary goal the enhancement of global competitiveness
of U.S. business and the American quality of life by promoting
and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity
assessment systems and promoting their integrity. The Institute
represents the interests of its nearly 1,000 company, organization,
government agency, institutional and international members through
its office in New York City, and its headquarter in Washington,
D.C. |
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| ANSI does not itself develop American National
Standards (ANSs); rather it facilitates development by establishing
consensus among qualified groups. The Institute ensures that
its guiding principles -- consensus, due process and openness
-- are followed by the more than 175 distinct entities currently
accredited under one of the Federation's three methods of accreditation
(organization, committee or canvass). In 1999 alone the number
of American National Standards increased by nearly 5.5% to a
new total of 14,650 approved ANS. ANSI-accredited developers
are committed to supporting the development of national and,
in many cases international standards, addressing the critical
trends of technological innovation, marketplace globalization
and regulatory reform. |
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| ANSI promotes the use of U.S. standards internationally,
advocates U.S. policy and technical positions in international
and regional standards organizations, and encourages the adoption
of international standards as national standards where these
meet the needs of the user community. |
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| ANSI is the sole U.S. representative and dues-paying
member of the two major non-treaty international standards organizations,
the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and,
via the U.S. National Committee (USNC), the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC). |
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| ANSI was a founding member of the ISO and plays
an active role in its governance. ANSI is one of five permanent
members to the governing ISO Council, and one of four permanent
members of ISO's Technical Management Board. U.S. participation,
through the U.S. National Committee, is equally strong in the
IEC. The USNC is one of 12 members on the IEC's governing Committee
of Action and the current president of the IEC is from the United
States. |
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| Through ANSI, the United States has immediate
access to the ISO and IEC standards development processes. ANSI
participates in almost the entire technical program of both
the ISO (78% of all ISO technical committees) and the IEC (91%
of all IEC technical committees) and administers many key committees
and subgroups (16% in the ISO; 17% in the IEC) . As part of
its responsibilities as the U.S. member body to the ISO and
the IEC, ANSI accredits U.S. Technical Advisory Groups (U.S.
TAGs) or USNC Technical Advisors (TAs). The U.S. TAG's (or TA's)
primary purpose is to develop and transmit, via ANSI, U.S. positions
on activities and ballots of the international technical committee. |
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| In many instances, U.S. standards are taken forward,
through ANSI or its USNC, to the ISO or IEC where they are adopted
in whole or in part as international standards. Since the work
of international technical committees is carried out by volunteers
from industry and government, not ANSI staff, the success of
these efforts often is dependent upon the willingness of U.S.
industry and the U.S. government to commit the resources required
to ensure strong U.S. technical participation in the international
standards process. |
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