In 1985, the information technology industry and the government (AIST, a part of MITI) joined forces to establish INSTAC (Information Technology Research and Standardization Center) within the Japanese Standard Association (JSA) (new window) as they perceived a growing need to strengthen the ability to draft Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) relating to information technology in a more timely manner.
INSTAC, a non-profit organization, fulfills the following responsibilities:
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Conducts research activities in the field of information technology with a view to identify the needs for standardization
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Drafts JIS in the field of information technology
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Promotes interchange between various standardization bodies, domestic or overseas, national or regional/international, with a view to smooth exchange and disseminate information
INSTAC XML specifications
More information: INSTAC website (new window).
More on the general topic: Cross-industry consortia
- Business Process Modeling Initiative (BPMI.org)
- Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Interest Group
- Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
- electronic business using eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML)
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Java Community Process (JCP)
- Liberty Alliance Project
- Object Management Group (OMG)
- Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGi)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- The Open Group
- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
- RosettaNet
- Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
- Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- www.udef.com
- XBRL International
- XML/EDI Group
