andards making bodies. It is actively involved in (Japanese Industrial Standard) mark. standards setting and in conformance testing. It has members on many US technical committees, such as X3, T1, IEEE and EIA, and 22.7.3 OSI standards provides an input to CCITT Study Groups and to ISO on OSI standards. Two bodies are active in promoting OSI standards within Japan: the Promoting conference for OSI (POSI) and the Asia and Oceanic Workshop for OSI Standardisation (AOWS). The POSI was formed in 1985. The founder members were Oki Canadian standards organisations Electric Industry, Toshiba, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Mitsubishi Electric, Hitachi, NEC, and Fujitsu. Its prime aim is to Canada has several standards making organisations, under the con- further the use of OSI by international co-operation, and it is active trol of a central statutory corporation, the Standards Council of on the Feeder's Forum and in AOWS. Canada (SCC). The AOWS was formed in 1988 and includes OSI experts from The SCC is a government body, founded in 1970. Its main aim is Asia and Oceania. It contains a council, plenary meeting and special to approve standards, produced by other organisations, into a Na- interest groups. Its members included organisations interested in tional Standards System. It encourages voluntary standardisation in OSI, such as researchers, standardisation organisations, manufac- areas not covered by law, e.g. health and safety. turers of OSI based equipment, and users of IT equipment. Japanese standards organisations Australian standards organisations 22.7.1 The TTC Australia is a member of the ITU where it is represented by its Department of Transport and Communications (DOTAC). It dele- The Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) is gates co-ordination with CCITT to the Australian CCITT Commit- the body responsible for the country's postal, telecommunications tee (ACC). and broadcasting services. In 1982 it set up the Telecommunications Technology Council to advise the Ministry on preparing