Information Technology Task Force Explained

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

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

External links

• ITTF web site
• Publicly available standards

Notes and References

1. Web site: ISO/IEC JTC 1 Directives, Edition 5, Version 3.0.