Standards Acronyms and Terms

*** there are thousands of acronyms, and each standards organization has it's own.  Here is a list of some of the more common ones:

ACRONYM

 MEANING

A

 AMENDMENT

ACEA

 Advisory Committee on Environmental Aspects

ACEC

 Advisory Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility

ACET

 Advisory Committee on Electronics and Telecommunications

ACOS

 Advisory Committee on Safety

AD

 ADDENDA

ADB

 ADOPTION BULLETIN

ADM

 ADDENDUM

ANNC

 ANNOUNCEMENT BULLETIN

APN

 APPENDIX

APPR

 APPROVED

C

 CHANGE

CAB

 Conformity Assessment Board

CB

 Council Board

CD

 Committee Draft

CDF

 Comité des finances (Finance Committee)

CDV

 Committee Draft for Vote

CNCL

 CANCELED

CRGD

 CORRIGENDUM

CRPG

 CORRECTED PAGE

DMT

 Directives Maintenance Team

EMC

 EMERGENCY MESSAGE CHANGE

ERTA

 ERRATA

ERTM

 ERRATUM

ExCo

 Executive Committee

FDIS

 Final Draft International Standard

IA

 INTERIM AMENDMENT

IEC-PAS

 IEC-Publicly Available Specification

IMC

 INTERIM MESSAGE CHANGE

IT

 Information Technology

ITA

 Industry Technical Agreement

JPEG

 Joint Photographic Experts Group

JTAB

 Joint Technical Advisory Board

JTC 1

 ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology

MC

 Marketing Committee

MPEG

 Motion Picture Experts Group

N

 NOTICE

NC

 National Committee

O-MEMBER

 Observer Member (of a TC or SC)

PACT

 President's Advisory Committee on future Technologies

PED

 PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT (DISKETTE)

P-MEMBER

 Participating Member (of a TC or SC)

Q

 Questionnaire

RDSG

 REDESIGNATED

REAF

 REAFFIRMED

REAP

 REAPPROVED

REI

 REISSUE

REIN

 REINSTATED

REN

 RENEWAL

REPG

 REVISION PAGE

REPR

 REPRINT

RESN

 RESCINDED

RM

 Report of Meeting

SC

 Subcommittee

SMB

 Standardization Management Board

SN

 SPECIAL NOTICE

SPC

 Sales Policy Committee

SUB

 SUBSCRIPTION

TBT

 Technical Barriers to Trade agreement

TC

 Technical Committee

TC

 TECHNICAL CORRIGENDUM

TML

 TRANSMITTAL

TTA

 Technology Trend Assessment

W/

 CHANGES MERGED WITHIN A DOCUMENT

WD

 Working Draft