ISO/TC 154 — since 1972
A curated record of the committee's milestones — from its 1972 founding, through the EDIFACT era and the ISO 8601 split, to the present day.
ISO Council establishes ISO/TC 154, "_Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration_," to carry forward the EDI and trade-data work previously run under ISO/TC 154's predecessor remit. The SNV (Switzerland) secretariat hosts the first meetings.
One of the committee's first published standards: a fixed representation of ordinal dates (day-of-year) for information interchange.
The committee meets for the first time in Stockholm, hosted by SIS.
Hosted by BSI in London.
Representation of the time of day for information interchange, complementing ISO 2711 and ISO 2014 in the foundational date-and-time suite.
First plenary outside Europe, hosted by SCC (Standards Council of Canada).
Hosted at ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
The committee returns to Stockholm, hosted by SIS — the city of its founding meeting in 1973.
Hosted by AFNOR in Paris.
First plenary held in the United States, hosted by ANSI at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Establishes where UN/EDIFACT and other trade codes are placed in paper and electronic trade documents. A 1999 corrigendum made the standard Y2K-compatible.
Hosted by DIN in Berlin — the committee's first Berlin plenary.
Hosted by BSI in London — the city of the 2nd plenary in 1974.
Hosted by DIN in Cologne. The committee expresses its appreciation to DIN, the chairman, and the secretary for their work.
Hosted at the ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
Hosted by AFNOR in Paris — the second plenary of 1996, following the March Geneva meeting.
Hosted by DIN in Berlin. The committee resolves to establish an editing committee for the revision of ISO 9735 (EDIFACT syntax), with Don Trafford as chair and Bernd Boesler as secretary.
Subcommittee SC 2 is disbanded, consolidating the committee's work programme directly under the TC.
François Vuilleumier (SNV, Switzerland) begins a decade-long tenure as both Chair and Committee Manager, anchoring the committee's late-1990s restructuring around UN/EDIFACT and ISO 8601.
The foundational standard unifying calendar dates, ordinal dates, times, durations, and time intervals into a single interchange format. TC 154 would later split it into the multi-part ISO 8601-1 / ISO 8601-2 structure.
Hosted at the ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
Hosted by AFNOR in Paris, chaired by Ingeborg Burger-Balogh. The committee resolves to create a Working Group for the BSR (Basic Semantic Repository).
Hosted at the ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva. The committee closes the decade with back-to-back Geneva plenaries.
The committee resolves that all documents will be distributed electronically only — closing the paper era and establishing the all-digital working method still in use today.
JISC (JP), BSI (GB), DIN (DE) and AFNOR (FR) form a Chair Advisory Board to progress inter-sessional work. The board has no decision-making authority and acts as a steering body for the Chair.
Hosted by NBN at the heart of the EU regulatory district.
The complete ISO 9735 series published in 2002 codifies the UN/EDIFACT application-level syntax rules in nine parts, the culmination of the post-1997 editing committee work.
At this meeting TC 154 resolves to migrate liaisons with the EWG and CDWG to the newly-formed UN/CEFACT Forum.
After systematic review, the 1993 Postal addressing standard is withdrawn.
Hosted by ANSI in San Diego, California.
First plenary held in the Republic of Korea, hosted by KATS (Mr. Y.-G. Jung) in the Seoul region. Final resolutions and action items circulated as document N453.
Hosted by LMI (Mark Crawford) in McLean, Virginia, back-to-back with the ISO 7372 Maintenance Agency meeting and the UN/CEFACT Forum in the Washington D.C. metro area.
The Trade Data Elements Directory (UNTDED) reaches its 2005 edition, maintained jointly with UNECE through the ISO 7372 Maintenance Agency.
Hosted by CEN/ISSS (Alain Dechamps) in Brussels, the Friday before the UN/CEFACT Forum in Lyon.
Hosted by the Treasury Board of Canada (Ed Buchinski) at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, within the framework of the 8th UN/CEFACT Forum. Adobe, SAP, and eBusiness Apps co-sponsored.
After ten years leading the committee, Vuilleumier resigns as both Chair and Committee Manager. The secretariat transitions from SNV (Switzerland) to NEN (Netherlands).
Robert Schubenel (GS1) begins a brief tenure as Chair during the NEN (Netherlands) secretariat years.
Hosted by NBN in Brussels. The committee notes with regret the resignation of Mr. Vuilleumier as chair and secretary.
The committee establishes a Category A liaison with UN/CEFACT, disbanding earlier direct liaisons with UN, LAS, AELE, and ICOGRADA in favour of the unified UN/CEFACT channel. Also establishes an A-liaison with IATA.
First plenary in Japan, hosted by JISC.
Originally planned for Bangkok, hosted by TISI; cancelled and replaced by a virtual conference call on the same date (minutes issued as document N576).
Hosted at ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
Hosted by LMI (Delta Pelgrim) in McLean, Virginia, back-to-back with the TDED Joint MA meeting. Called on shorter-than-usual notice (2 months prior).
Klaus-Dieter Naujok (DIN, Germany) — long-time convenor of JWG 1 and a principal author of the EDIFACT syntax revision — is appointed Chair.
Hosted at ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva.
Hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area, strengthening ties with US industry.
Hosted by DIN in Berlin — the committee's third Berlin plenary after the 8th (1987) and 13th (1997).
The Standardization Administration of China (SAC) takes over the ISO/TC 154 secretariat, with Jianfang Zhang (SAC/CNIS) as Committee Manager. SAC has held the secretariat continuously since.
TC 154 establishes Working Group 6, "_Trusted eCommunication_," taking on the trusted-communication-platform projects. WG 6 covers legally-binding e-transactions and trusted e-communications across mobile, IoT, and cloud environments.
With work items completed, WG 3 (CCTS) and WG 4 (e-documents) are disbanded at the 33rd plenary.
Hosted by KATS in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
The committee's first fully virtual plenary, held via WebEx.
Hosted by DIN in Berlin — the committee's return to in-person plenaries after the virtual 34th, and the fourth Berlin plenary overall.
TC 154 creates Working Group 7, "_Business_" (later renamed "_Digital Business_"), and appoints Klaus-Dieter Naujok as its first convenor.
Hongru (Judy) Zhu (SAC, China) is appointed Chair and convenor of the CAG, becoming the first SAC-affiliated chair of the committee.
25 resolutions adopted — one of the heaviest-resolution plenaries of the decade.
Hosted by SAC in Hangzhou, China. 35 resolutions adopted.
The final 2018 Business Plan (document N1001) is approved by ballot following N993, codifying the committee's vision, three strategies, and three action points through the current term.
The single-part ISO 8601:2004 is split into two complementary standards. ISO 8601-1 covers fundamental representations; ISO 8601-2 extends them with disambiguated intervals, recurring intervals, and sets.
Hosted by ILNAS at the University of Luxembourg.
The committee's first fully virtual plenary, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 26 resolutions adopted — record for the era.
The committee returns to a hybrid format.
Shi Yu (SAC, China) is appointed Chair and convenor of the CAG following Judy Zhu's tenure.
Hosted in the Palais des Nations, Geneva — the committee's first return to ISO's home city in over a decade.
Hosted by ITCHKSAR and CalConnect in Hong Kong SAR, China.
TC 154 establishes Working Group 2 to develop statistics-data-exchange standards. Glenn Tice (BSI) is appointed convenor.
Hosted by KATS with RRA and TTA as co-organizers in Bundang, Republic of Korea. 18 resolutions adopted.
Hosted by OAGi (an A-liaison) and ANSI in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Notable as one of the last plenaries with ANSI as a P-member.
Shi Yu's term ends after four years leading the committee.
The United States (ANSI) and Canada (SCC) conclude their terms as P-members of ISO/TC 154.
Pan Wei (SAC, China) is appointed Chair and convenor of the CAG.
The committee returns to Berlin, hosted by DIN — site of the 1997 13th plenary.
