What are IEEE standards?
Published documents that set specifications and procedures designed to ensure materials, products, methods or services are fit for their purpose and consistently perform the way they were intended. IEEE standards establish an authoritative “common language” that defines quality and sets technical criteria. They are the common denominator that organize our technical world, ensure safety, facilitate trade, add value to products and help drive market developments. What is standardization? The process by which a standard is developed. In order to ensure that every IEEE standard is credible, has support of all interested parties and is developed in an open manner, the standards development process is clearly defined. Key criteria of a standard includes that the standard represents the consensus of technical experts and that these experts contribute their knowledge and time to the development of the standard. The standards development process has several key milestones: -Request, usually fro
