ANSI

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) serves in the accrediting of standards organizations, as a publishing clearinghouse, and administrative aspects surrounding US standards participation; but ANSI does not develop standards.

ANSI, American National Standards Institute

ANSI, American National Standards Institute Overview The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a privately funded federation of business and industry, standards developers, trade associations, labor unions, professional societies, consumers, academia, and government agencies. ANSI does not itself write standards. The United States National Committee of the IEC is a committee of ANSI representing US interests at the IEC. ANSI is also the sole US representative to the ISO organization. It sits as one of the five permanent members of the ISO governing council. Industry Sector(s) Geopolitical Reach Type of Standards Body Relevant Standards and Work Groups NSSN, National Standards System Network (ANSI resource detailing mostly ANSI-related SDOs) Design Center National Standards Strategy for the US--calls for standards developers in all sectors to work with the appropriate governmental agencies to increase use of the voluntary consensus process. Interrelations Contact Information Over 270 accredited SDOs in all. ANSI, American National Standards Institute NSSN, National Standards Systems Network Road-mapping and US standards strategy US National Standards Body US, International impact in IEC and ISO membership All