"They have turned what is supposed to be a standards-setting body into a regulatory commission," said Donald L. Telage, the company's senior vice president.

The plan was developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee, a technical standards-setting body with 125 members representing almost every sphere of the telecommunications industry.

The International Civil Aviation Organization, a standards-setting body based in Montreal, also believes that the proposed standards for shipping plutonium need further study.

ISO (Other major standards-setting body)

Although there is no standards-setting body or ruling organization, the established priority ranking of the major currencies is:

Novell went so far as to give the Unix trademark to an independent standards-setting body, the X/Open consortium, in hopes of creating a unified challenge to Microsoft.

These organizations formally are private-sector entities, but their reach is complementary with, and broadly comparable to, public or intergovernmental standards-setting bodies and certificating authorities.

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute will also be strengthened in its basic capacity as a standards-setting body and in the area of metrology.

U.S. Robotics has announced its intent to sell its modems before the International Telecommunications Union, the official standards-setting body, sanctions 56-kilobit technology.

The CASC supports the efforts of the CA/Browser Forum and other standards-setting bodies.