NCITS Approves Establishment of NCITS V3

National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS)
NCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC)
1250 Eye St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005
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Email: ncits@itic.org

Date: January 31, 2001

NCITS Approves Establishment of NCITS V3 - NCITs eCommerce

At a January 22-24 meeting in Harrisburg, PA, the National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS) established a new technical committee, NCITS V3, eCommerce. The new TC was created to identify opportunities and requirements for worldwide infrastructure standards development. This will assist expansion of eCommerce for all types of transactions, and will complement work by W3C, IETF, The Open Group, and The Object Management Group.

Technical Committee V3's project is to identify opportunities and requirements for worldwide infrastructure standards development. This will assist expansion of eCommerce for all types of transactions. This project includes, but is not limited to the following:

Freight movement
Traffic management
Entertainment
Financial instruments
Healthcare management
Distribution
Manufacturing

The project will proceed in the following manner.

Phase 1 - identification of requirements for further enabling eCommerce
Phase 2 - survey of current and emerging standards that address the requirements
Phase 3 - identification of current practices
Phase 4 - identification of opportunities
Phase 5 - completion and publication

Mr. John Hill of Sun Microsystems will convene the first meeting in Washington, DC, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on March 8, 2001. The 1-day meeting will be held at ITIC, 1250 I Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC, 20005 in Conference Rooms 1 and 2.. Further information is available at V3's working web site at http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/v3.htm.

Participation in standards activities of NCITS Subgroups is open to all directly and materially affected interests. NCITS operates under procedures approved by the American National Standards Institute.

NCITS's mission is to produce market-driven, voluntary consensus standards in the areas of:

multimedia (MPEG/JPEG),
intercommunication among computing devices and information systems (including the Information Infrastructure, SCSI-2 interfaces,
Geographic Information Systems),
storage media (hard drives, removable cartridges),
database (including SQL3),
security, and
programming languages (such as C++).

NCITS's membership is comprised of many IT-related companies such as Apple Computer, Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Sony, Sun Microsystems and Xerox Corporation. Many IT users such as Boeing, DOD, DOE and NIST also participate.

The next meeting of NCITS will be April 25-27 in Monterey, CA. For further information about NCITS, the next meeting, or how to join NCITS, contact Kate McMillan (202-626-5742 or kmcmillan@itic.org)