Accredited standards committee for information processing systems,X3

Abstract This article described the activities and structure of the Accredited Standards Committee X3 - Information Processing Systems, operating under the procedures of ANSI. The author, a member of both X3 and IEEE, has been extensively involved in the X3 standardization process, and describes X3 from the perspective of an organization devoted to developing voluntary standards for the information processing industry, using the dual concepts of consensus and due process to guide their work.