German Standards Institution
The German Institute for Standardization e.V. (DIN), founded in Berlin in 1917, is a registered association based in Berlin. DIN's standardization work is a technical and scientific service for all citizens of our country. Standardization benefits the national economy as a whole.
DIN is the round table where manufacturers, trade, consumers, handicraft, service companies, science, technical supervision, state, everybody who has an interest in standardization meet to determine the state of the art and to write it down in German Standards.
These rules of technology serve the rationalization, the quality assurance, the security, the environmental protection and the understanding in economy, technology, science, administration and public.
The standardization work is carried out in 4300 working committees with 33,800 volunteers. Completed standards arereviewed at least every 5 years to ensure that they are up to date.
The German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.) also defines the standards for data communications. However, since a large part has already been standardized in the USA by the International Organization for Standardization( ISO), the Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. has thankfully adopted part of the ISO standards unchanged and published them as DIN-ISO standards. This provides international consistency, and expert discussions on an international basis have a viable basis.
As a non-profit association, DIN develops German standards (DIN standards) for the benefit of the general public, which are summarized in the German Standards System. DIN is recognized by the German government as the competent standards organization for the whole of Germany. The technical work is carried out in working committees, which are combined in standards committees, by volunteers. These are experts from interested circles, such as users, authorities, professional associations, vocational, technical and higher education institutions, trade, crafts, industry, testing institutes, property insurers, experts, technical supervisors, consumers and scientists. The Information Processing Standards Committee( NI), which is responsible for dataprocessing, is actively involved in ISO.