American National Standards Institute (ANSI) (ANSI)

A national coordinator of voluntary standards activities, and an approval organization and clearinghouse for consensus standards in the United States. ANSI works closely with international organizations, particularly ISO, for the development and approval of international standards. While ANSI standards apply to every facet of today's world, their efforts in the area of SQL and spatial extensions to SQL are of particular interest to the GIS community.

A standards organization that defines information technology standards for programming languages, EDI, telecommunications, and physical properties of diskettes, cartridges, and magnetic tapes.

The U.S. standards organization that establishes procedures for the development and coordination of voluntary American National Standards.