InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards ( INCITS ) is a major US standards organization in the field of information technology . INCITS is by the American National Standards Institute accredited (ANSI) and has over 600 De jure - standards developed. The importance of the INCITS extends far beyond the USA, since these standards are regarded worldwide as industrial standards or serve as the basis for international standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
INCITS was founded in 1961 under the name Accredited Standards Committee X3, Information Technology (mostly abbreviated as X3 ). In 1996 it was renamed the National Committee for Information Technology Standards ( NCITS ). When the name was last changed in 2003, National was replaced by InterNational in order to take into account the increasingly international orientation of INCITS.
Known examples of norms of INCITS are the character set ASCII , the programming languages Fortran , COBOL , C and C ++ or hardware - interfaces such as SCSI , Fiber Channel and ATA .
Technical Committees
The standards are drawn up in technical committees that specialize in a specific field.
The most famous technical committees and their standards are:
- T10 (SCSI Storage Interfaces): SCSI and related interfaces (e.g. SAS , SAT , MMC )
- T11 (Device Level Interfaces): Fiber Channel (FC) , Storage Network Management (SM), and under the former name X3T9.3: HIPPI
- T13 (ATA Storage Interface): ATA / ATAPI interface between mass storage and computer , as ANSI - standard issued.