The Standards Board does little apart from setting up Sector Boards ( a Sector in BSI parlance being a field of standardization such as ICT, Quality, Agriculture, Manufacturing, or Fire ).

Complaints against broadcasters, such as concerns around offensive programming, are dealt with by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ( CBSC ), an independent broadcast industry association, rather than by the CRTC, although CBSC decisions can be appealed to the CRTC if necessary.

Due to halakhic disputes, such as the controversies over the role of women and homosexuality, some Conservative Talmudic scholars and experts in halakha have left the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.

Standards would have to be agreed upon by the international community, such as air miles being translated to nautical miles and not affecting the reading of the odometer.

FAO and the World Health Organization created the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1963 to develop food standards, guidelines and texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO / WHO Food Standards Programme.

Many FIPS pronouncements are modified versions of standards used in the technical communities, such as the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), and the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ).

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

Standards developed jointly with ISO such as ISO / IEC 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications ( OpenDocument ) v1. 0 carry the acronym of both organizations.

Standards that describe calibration and operation for radiation dosimetry, as well as procedures to relate the measured dose to the effects achieved and to report and document such results, are maintained by the American Society for Testing and Materials ( ASTM international ) and are also available as ISO / ASTM standards.

I – O psychologists adhere to professional standards, such as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's ( SIOP ) Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures and the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.

Government agencies ( such as the former U. S. Employment Standards Administration ) enforce employment standards codified by labour law ( legislative, regulatory, or judicial ).

It saw the Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith leave the government in disgrace, and a Committee on Standards in Public Life established to prevent such corruption occurring again.

The NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology vulnerabilities database, US-CERT, rates traditional mainframes such as IBM zSeries, Unisys Dorado and Unisys Libra as among the most secure with vulnerabilities in the low single digits as compared with thousands for Windows, Linux and Unix.

This left them with no choice but to adopt more youthful formats, though the Standards format ( also known as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker Rod Stewart ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah putting their own interpretation on the music.

Standards ( Ethernet, for example ) can fix the size of an MTU ; or systems ( such as point-to-point serial links ) may decide MTU at connect time.

For example, the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses the term to refer to any universal physical quantity believed to be constant, such as the speed of light, c, and the gravitational constant G.

Pasteurization methods are usually standardized and controlled by national food safety agencies ( such as the USDA in the United States and the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom ).

These standards are usually developed in voluntary consensus standards bodies such as the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business ( UN / CEFACT ), the World Wide Web Consortium W3C, the Telecommunications Industry Association ( TIA ), and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS ).

In the context of customer service, standardisation refers to the process of developing an international standard that enables organizations to focus their attention on delivering excellence in customer service, whilst at the same time providing recognition of success through a third party organization, such as British Standards Institution ( BSI ).

The original legislation mandated that the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, known as the Access Board, establish a draft for their Final Standards for accessibility for such electronic and information technologies in December 2001.

Standards organizations such as International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) and International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) recommend to use the alternative term tebibyte to signify the traditional measure of 1024 < sup > 4 </ sup > bytes, leading to the following definitions:

Most companies that harvest in Canadian forests are certified by an independent third party agency such as the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ), Sustainable Forests Initiative ( SFI ), or the Canadian Standards Association ( CSA ).

The Standards Board ensures that coherent regulations are developed in areas such as Electronic Data Interchange ( EDI ), mail encoding, postal forms and meters.

But the usage is not always consistent – for example, some prominent American brands, such as George Dickel, Maker's Mark, and Old Forester ( which are all made by different companies ), use the ' whisky ' spelling on their labels, and the US legal Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits document also uses the ' whisky ' spelling.

* 112-Subsystem Design And Engineering Standards For Common Long Haul Tactical Cable And Wire Communications

* 140A-Equipment Technical Design Standards For Common Long Haul / Tactical Radio Communications In The Low Frequency Band And Lower Frequency Bands

* 154A-Subsystem, Equipment, And Interface Standards For Common Long Haul And Tactical Telecommunications Control Facilities

* Common Core State Standards Initiative

* In Canada, the Standards Council of Canada ( SCC ) accredits Common Criteria Evaluation Facilities

* In the US, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program ( NVLAP ) accredits Common Criteria Testing Laboratories ( CCTL )

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has collaborated with industry to develop the Common Industry Specification for Usability-Requirements, which serves as a guide for many industry professionals.

In the USA, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers have published the national mathematics Common Core State Standards Initiative.

It is known as the COROS ( Common Objectives and Requirements of Organic Standards )

In the United States, the Common Core State Standards Initiative promulgates a core curriculum for states to adopt and optionally expand upon.

Since the nation-wide proposal of the Common Core State Standards in 2009, which do not include instruction in cursive, the standards have been adopted by 44 states as of July 2011, all of which have debated whether to augment them with cursive.

Canada has the Common Look and Feel Standards requiring federal government internet websites to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ( WCAG ) 1. 0 Checkpoints Priorities 1 and 2 ( Double A conformance level ).

The Focal Points were one of the documents used in creating the 2010 Common Core State Standards, which have been adopted by most states as the basis for new math curricula.

Its emphasis will be on integrating the Common Education Data Standards ( CEDS ) fully thus providing states, districts, schools and vendors with " CEDS-On-The_Wire ".

* In June 2014, Regents Exams in Comprehensive English, Algebra 1, Geometry, and NYSAA will be aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards ( CCLS ).

These standards are a result of New York State's participation in the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which seeks to improve and align state curricula across the U. S.

The national effort to develop common mathematics and ELA standards that states could supposedly voluntarily adopt began with Washington, DC-based trade associations such as the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, sponsors of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This is documented in the Pioneer Institute's report " The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers " by Robert S. Eitel, Kent D. Talbert and Williamson M. Evers, all former senior Education Department officials.

A February study by the Pioneer Institute conservatively estimates that Obama's Common Core Standards will costs the states at least $ 16 billion -- money that could be used to promote education in other ways.

National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards

The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers

The Austin Group or the Austin Common Standards Revision Group is a joint technical working group formed to develop and maintain a common revision of POSIX. 1 and parts of the Single UNIX Specification.

The states supporting this initiative are planning on phasing over to the newer Common Core State Standards Initiative by 2014.