Excerpt from Standards Activities of Organizations in the United States The directory includes organizations that develop standards and also those that work with others to develop and use standards or that regularly comment on draft stan dards. It is considered to be inappropriate to include activities that only develop ethical} professional standards, or that set standards for judging animals, or are concerned exclusively with standards for services or training. The directory lists sources of standards outside the United States and sources of foreign and international standards in response to increasing interest and application of standards throughout the world. Self-designated regional and international organizations are covered separately in a companion nbs Special Publication 649, Directory of International and Regional Organizations Conducting standards-related Activities. Which has 272 entries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.