American National Standards Institute

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American National Standards Institute
(ANSI)
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founding October 19, 1918
Seat Washington, DC ( ⊙ coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′ 14.3 ″  N , 77 ° 2 ′ 35.2 ″  W )
Employees 90 (2018)
Website www.ansi.org

The American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) is a private, not-for-profit, American organization that coordinates the development of voluntary standards in the United States. The non-profit organization is based in Washington, DC. The annual budget results from the sale of publications, membership fees, certification services, fee-based programs and international standardization projects.

It is the only US member in the International Organization for Standardization . The German equivalent is the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), the Austrian equivalent is the Austrian Standards Institute and the Swiss equivalent is the Swiss Association for Standardization .

Although the ANSI standards cover many areas, the abbreviation "ANSI" used alone in computer technology is sometimes used to denote a certain group of character sets based on ASCII ; there is no real ANSI standard for this, but the ANSI drafts were incorporated into the ISO 8859 standard .

The ANSI-SPARC architecture , also three-level architecture, can be used for databases ; it describes the basic definition of a database system. The programming language C was also standardized by ANSI and is therefore also known as " ANSI C ". The same applies to the database query language SQL, whose ANSI conformity can be a selection criterion.

The luminous flux of digital projectors is also measured in ANSI lumens .

In the area of film speed , since the 1940s an indication “in ASA” has generally referred to a film speed standardized by the predecessor organization; since 1987, indications “in ISO” according to ISO 5800 have been common.

history

  • 1919–1928 AESC , American Engineering Standards Committee
  • 1928-1966 ASA , American Standards Association
  • 1966–1969 USASI , United States of America Standards Institute
  • 1969 – today ANSI , American National Standards Institute

There are four foundations that are part of ANSI.

Web links

Commons : American National Standards Institute  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ansi.org/about_ansi/overview/overview
  2. ↑ Legal Status A 501 (c) 3 private, not-for-profit organization [1]
  3. ↑ https://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/iso_programs/overview?menuid=3
  4. ↑ Glossary of Terms . Microsoft Developer Network : "The term 'ANSI' as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community."
  5. ↑ https://www.ansi.org/about_ansi/foundation?menuid=1