Standards Organization

A standards organization, also called a standards body, standards developing organization or standards setting organization, is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards to those who employ them. The cited article says such an organization works to create uniformity across producers, consumers, government agencies and other relevant parties regarding terminology, product specifications, protocols and more. Architecture organizations recorded in the atlas as standards bodies are grouped under this concept.