Cis 505 Unit 1 Assignment

Assignment #1: “Standards Research”
Viral Shah
CIS505- Communication Technology
Dr. Michael Powell
July 15, 2015

Standards are published documents that establish specifications and procedures designed to maximize the reliability of the materials, products, methods, and/or services people use every day. Standards address a range of issues, including but not limited to various protocols to help maximize product functionality and compatibility, facilitate interoperability and support consumer safety and public health.
Standards form the fundamental building blocks for product development by establishing consistent protocols that can be universally understood and adopted. This helps fuel compatibility and interoperability and simplifies…show more content…
SDOs, such as IEEE, IEC, ISO, and others, offer time-tested platforms, rules, governance, methodologies and even facilitation services that objectively address the standards development lifecycle, and help facilitate the development, distribution and maintenance of standards.
Network standard develop by IEEE:
IEEE 802.1: Standards related to network management.
IEEE 802.2: General standard for the data link layer in the OSI Reference Model. The IEEE divides this layer into two sublayers -- the logical link control (LLC) layer and the media access control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer varies for different network types and is defined by standards IEEE 802.3 through IEEE 802.5.
IEEE 802.3: Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use CSMA/CD. This is the basis of the Ethernet standard. Also see the Ethernet Designations chart in the Quick Referencesection of Webopedia.
IEEE 802.4: Defines the MAC layer for bus networks that use a token-passing mechanism (token bus networks).
IEEE 802.5: Defines the MAC layer for token-ring networks.
IEEE 802.6: Standard for Metropolitan Area Networks…show more content…
On this front, NIST recently announced requests for proposals for five to eight pilots that would last as long as two years and would asses issues like interoperability and usability. According to Romine, NIST will be "aggressive" about pushing out pilot identity projects.
Cloud computing is another effort in which NIST has recently played an active role. The agency took the early lead in developing the Fed RAMP shared security authorization process for cloud services. NIST has been developing cloud standards as well, focusing a lot of that work around interoperability, privacy, and security, reliability, and usability.
At the end of the conclusion, I would like to opt that the difference I see here is mainly sectoral. IEEE is focused on electro-technical matters, while ISO has no particular boundary. IEEE also has a breadth and depth of expertise in a diverse collection of technology spaces. With this, when forming a working group team, the membership of IEEE can be approached for their interest in participation as