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Since 1961 and continuing in full force today, Ecma International facilitates the timely creation of a wide range of global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE) standards, for:

• Programming Languages;
• ECMAScript;
• Business Communications;
• Near Field Communications;
• High Rate Wireless Communications;
• Product Safety;
• Environmental Design Considerations;
• Acoustics and Electromagnetic Compatibilty (EMC);
• Optical Storage;
• Volume and File structure;
• Universal 3D open file format;
• Holographic Information Storage Systems (HISS);
• Office Open XML Formats;
• Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS).

Ecma has been involved in the development of the concept of "fast tracking" in ISO/IEC JTC 1 and - since its introduction in 1986 - it has been one of the main practitioners of it.

Ecma is driven by industry to meet the needs of industry, generating a healthy competitive landscape based on differentiation of products and services, rather than technology models, generating confidence among vendors and users of new technology.

Latest News

Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2010

Standard ECMA-393
"ProxZzzy for sleeping hosts" was approved in February 2010 by letter ballot

1^st International Workshop on Standards and Technologies
 in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR)
26^th - 27^th April 2010, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Ecma International approves new Patent Policy Document (“Code of Conduct in Patent Matters”)

Ecma International approves major revision of ECMAScript

Last results of the 98^th General Assembly held in Mountain View, December 3, 2009

Ecma TC46 has delivered the OpenXPS Standard

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