ANSI company member forum

CMF Functions & Procedures

As a membership forum of ANSI, the functions of the ANSI Company Member Forum include the following:

• Provide a venue for discussion, networking, and information exchange among members from a defined interest category
• Provide a mechanism for early warning and intelligence gathering on relevant trends
• Address issues of interest to their membership category and galvanize implementation at their constituent level
• Identify broader-based issues to be addressed by an identified ANSI governance body
• Assume an active role in ANSI membership recruitment and retention
• Serve as the one place within ANSI where participants can represent their own organization’s interests

Issues the CMF works to advance include:

• Developing solutions to cybersecurity and interoperability challenges faced by industry
• Attracting newer and younger professionals to standards to counteract the “greying” of the profession
• Finding methods of timely notification about impactful legislation and regulations
• Expanding markets and exports of U.S. technology;
• Promoting global standards over national or regional standards;
• Eliminating non-tariff technical barriers to trade such as duplicative testing requirements;
• Reducing the number of marks of conformity;
• Supporting the supplier’s declaration of conformity while preserving third-party certification for those suppliers who choose to use it;
• Promoting voluntary standards over government regulations;
• Opposing management system standards that do not add value to products or end users or that mandate third party verification of conformance;
• Supporting greater efficiencies in the international standards processes of ISO and IEC.