Information Technology Task Force
 |
| Abbreviation | ITTF |
|---|---|
| Type | Standards organization |
| Purpose | Administration to support the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1 |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
Region served | Worldwide |
| Website | http://www.iso.org/ittf |
The ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force (ITTF) is a body jointly formed by ISO and IEC responsible for the planning and coordination of the work of JTC 1. It has several responsibilities described in the JTC 1 Directives clause 4.1[1] including:
- day-to-day planning and coordination of the technical work
- supervising the application of rules
- advising JTC 1 on points of procedure
- administration of ballots
- publishing activities, including the printing, distribution and sale of International Standards
Publishing activities
[edit]The ITTF makes a number of International Standards and associated material available for free-of-charge download “for standardization purposes” Some well-known texts so available include:
- ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
- ISO/IEC 14977 Syntactic metalanguage — Extended BNF
- ISO/IEC 19757-2 Regular-grammar-based validation — RELAX NG
- ISO/IEC 26300 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0
- ISO/IEC 29500 Office Open XML File Formats