A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards to those who employ them. Such an organization works to create uniformity across producers, consumers, government agencies, and other relevant parties regarding terminology, product specifications, protocols, and more. Its goals could include ensuring that Company A's external hard drive works on Company B's computer, an individual's blood pressure measures the same with Company C's sphygmomanometer as it does with Company D's, or that all shirts that should not be ironed have the same icon on the label.
Memorial plaque of founding ISA in Prague
The British Standards Institution building as it appeared in 1997
Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas building, as seen in 2014
The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the national standards body of the United Kingdom. BSI produces technical standards on a wide range of products and services and also supplies certification and standards-related services to businesses.
BSI Group headquarters building in Gunnersbury, West London, featuring the BSI Group logo
Meeting of the international standards committee for the C++ programming language, hosted at the British Standards Institution in 1997
BSI representative presenting a standards certification to the International Maritime Organization in 2018
Kitemark symbol as seen on an access cover in Newtownards, Northern Ireland
