EIA Standards

ECIA holds accreditation rights through ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, under the mark "EIA". Any standards committee choosing to develop an American National Standard may process the work through the EIA accreditation. The EIA Standards and Technology department ensures that any standards-setting activities currently underway or planned meet due process and procedural guidelines as laid out in the EIA Manual of Organization and Procedure (EIA EP-20) and the EIA Legal Guides. Most Sector Association standards are fed through this department for final publishing and distribution via our publications distributor, IHS, Inc.

The EIA Standards and Technology Department oversees the EIA's presence in the global standards-setting arena by managing a number of Technical Committee and Subcommittee Secretariats and US Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) sponsored by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology (JTC1) that is a combined effort of the IEC and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Note:  The EIA organization ceased operations in February 2011.  EIA assigned ECIA maintenance of all existing interconnect, passive and electro-mechanical (IP&E) and inter-department EIA standards.  EIA also granted ECIA the rights to develop new IP&E electronic component standards under the ANSI-designation of EIA standards.