 Specifications are a type of technical standard that may be developed by any of various kinds of organizations, both public and private.Example organization types include a corporation, a consortium (a small group of corporations), a trade association (an industry-wide group of corporations), a national government (including its military, regulatory agencies, and national laboratories and institutes), a professional association (society), a purpose-made standards organization such as ISO, or vendor-neutral developed generic requirements.It is common for one organization to "refer to" ("reference", "call out", "cite") the standards of another.