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Format of standard titles

ISO[/IEC] [/ASTM] [IS] nnnn[-p]:[yyyy] Title
nnnn is the (usually randomly chosen) number of the standard.
p is an optional part number.
yyyy is the year in which the standard was published.
Title describes the standard's subject.
/IEC is included if the standard is the result of the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee).

Technical committees (TC) -- ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology

ISO develops their standards in technical committees which are identified by ISO/TC n where TC stands for «technical committee» and n is a running number that is increased when a new technical committee is formed.
These technical committees cover about anything imaginable. For example, ISO/TC 19 is about preferred numbers, ISO/TC 37 about Language and terminology, ISO/TC 46 about Information and documentation, ISO/TC 68 about Financial Services, ISO/TC 299 is about Robotics.
There seems even to be a proposed(?) committee to deal with sex toys, ISO/PC 325

ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology

I am particularly interested in ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Information Technology). The J in JTC indicates that this is a joint technical committee because it is (jointly) steered by two organizations: ISO and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)
As of 2020-02-27, JTC 1 has published 3236 standards.
JTC 1, being a committee itself, is also organized into subcommittees (SC), working groups (WG) and advisory groups (AG), for example JTC 1/AG 3 deals with open source, JTC 1/WG 11 with smart cities, JTC 1/SC 2 with coded character sets, JTC 1/SC 22 with programming languages, their einvornments and system softwware interfaces, JTC 1/SC 32 with Data management and interchange.
Some (all?) of these subcommittes are further divided into working groups. For example JTC 1/SC 32 into
  • WG 1: eBusiness
  • WG 2: metadata
  • WG 3: database languages
  • WG 4: SQL Multimedia & Application packages

Mirroring of ISO and ANSI

Apparently, the organization between ISO/IEC and some national standardization organizations is mirrorred, at least partially:
ISO/IEC ANSI
JTC 1 INCITS (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards)
SC 32 DM 32 (Data Management and Interchange)
WG 3 DM 32.2 (Database)
? DM 32.2 Ad Hoc (specific short-term task(s) SQL extensions for property graphs)

Some interesting Standards

Some interesting ISO standards, at least for my purposes, are:
ISO 639 Codes for the representation of names of languages
ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries (also geograpic units).
ISO 4217 abbreviations for currencies
ISO 6709 Representation of geographic point locations (latitude, longitude, altitude) by coordinates.
ISO 8073 Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Protocol for providing the connection-mode transport service (ITU-T X.244* is the same as ISO 8073)
ISO 8601 exchange of time and date related data
ISO 8859 8 bit character set
ISO 9000 a family of quality management systems standards. See also 9001.
ISO/IEC 9075 Information technology - Database languages - SQL
9899 Programming languages: C, compare with 14882
9949 Definition of a standard operating system interface and environment, including a command interpreter (aka shell) and common utility programs to support applications portability at the source code level.
ISO 9995 Keyboard layouts for text and office systems
ISO 10006
ISO 10646 Information Technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS).
10993 a series of standards for evaluating the biocompatibility of medical devicesA to manage biological risk. For example, it covers the biocompatibility of RFID Chips.
11578 Information Technology — Open Systems Interconnection - Remote Procedure Call (RPC).
ISO 13250 Topic Maps
ISO 14721 defines the reference model for an open archival information system (OAIS).
14882 Programming languages: C++, compare with 9899 and 23270
ISO 12207 Systems and software engineering – Software life cycle processes
ISO 14977 EBNF (Extended Backus-Naur Form)
ISO 15022
ISO 20000 is an international standard for managing and delivering IT services (See also 20001 and 20002).
ISO 21500 Guidance on project management
23270 Programming languages: C#, compare with 14882
23271
ISO 25012
26324:2012 DOI Digital Object Identifier
ISO 27000 Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems — Overview and vocabulary
29500 Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats
ISO 31000 a family of standards relating to risk management
ISO 42010 architecture descriptions of systems and software

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