January 1995/Stepping Up To C++/Table 1

Table 1 Standard Organizations Affecting C and C++

                    US Standards
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ANSI   the American National Standards Institute
X3     the ANSI committee for Information Processing
       Systems
X3J11  the X3 technical committee standardizing C
X3J16  the X3 technical committee standardizing C++

                 International Standards
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ISO    The International Organization for Standardization, an
       organization of national standards bodies such as
       ANSI (USA), AFNOR (France), BSI (UK), DIN
       (Germany), JTSC (Japan), SCC (Canada) and many
       others
IEC    the International Electrotechnical Commission
JTC1   the Joint Technical Committee (of ISO and IEC) on
       Information Technology

SC22   the JTC1 Sub-Committee for programming languages
WG14   the SC22 Working Group standardizing C
WG21   the SC22 Working Group standardizing C++