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16 November 2018	Ecma SG participated in the fifth World Internet Conference (November 7-9, 2018) in the town of Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province of China
3 October 2018	Discussion topics for the inaugural meeting of Ecma TC53 in Boston (USA) on 15-16 October 2018
20 September 2018	TC53 on Smart Wearable Systems and Sensor-Based Devices inaugural meeting
19 September 2018	Launching of the recognition award program
27 June 2018	The 115^th General Assembly held in Geneva, June 27, 2018, approved the following documents: ECMA-74 15^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-262 9^th edition - ECMAScript^� 2018 Language Specification ECMA-402 5^th edition - ECMAScript^� 2018 Internationalization API Specification ECMA-416 1^st edition - Scalable Sparse Spatial Sound System (S5) - Base S5 Coding in Frequency Domain
27 June 2018	Advertisement Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Stripe Inc. (OM) Igalia, S. L. (SME) npm, Inc. (SME) Agoric Systems (SPC)
23 May 2018	Loss of an Ecma friend and former Ecma President, Dr. Paul Weijenbergh
4 May 2018	Call for participation Royalty-Free Animated JPEG Standardization Proposal
3 April 2018	New Ecma Wearable TC introduction and call for participation
12 January 2018	Kei Yamashita (Hitachi) - Ecma International President receives - Ecma Award of Appreciation
20 December 2017	The fourth World Internet Conference was held on December 3-5, 2017 in the East China town of Wuzhen
15 December 2017	IMTC presents lifetime achievement award to Ecma Secretary General
6 December 2017	The 114^th General Assembly held in Tokyo, December 6, 2017, approved the following documents: ECMA TR/107 3^rd edition - An optional alternate background noise correction sensitive to the steadiness of background noise ECMA-74 14^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-119 3^rd edition - Volume and File Structure of CDROM for Information Interchange ECMA-275-1 4^th edition - Measurement of airborne noise emitted and structure-borne vibration induced by small air-moving devices – Part 1: Airborne noise measurement ECMA-275-2 4^th edition - Measurement of airborne noise emitted and structure-borne vibration induced by small air-moving devices – Part 2: Structure-borne vibration measurement ECMA-334 5^th edition - C# Language Specification ECMA-404 2^nd edition - The JSON Data Interchange Syntax ECMA-414 3^rd edition - ECMAScript^� Specification Suite
6 December 2017	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Keio University (NFP) Korea University (NFP) Turing School of Software & Design (NFP)
15 November 2017	SEAD Connected Efficiency Award goes to Ecma TC38
18 September 2017	ECMA-262 (ECMAScript) 20^th birthday
15 August 2017	Ecma Secretary General honoured with JPEG award
27 June 2017	The 113^th General Assembly held in Montreux, June 27, 2017, approved the following documents: ECMA-262 8^th edition - ECMAScript^� 2017 Language Specification ECMA-328 8^th edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment – Part 1 (using-consumables) ECMA-328 8^th edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment - Part 2 (not using-consumables) ECMA-396 4^th edition - Test Method for the Estimation of Lifetime of Optical Disks for Long-term Data Storage ECMA-402 4^th edition - ECMAScript^� 2017 Internationalization API Specification ECMA-410 3^rd edition - NFC-SEC-03: NFC-SEC Entity Authentication and Key Agreement using Asymmetric Cryptography ECMA-411 3^rd edition - NFC-SEC-04: NFC-SEC Entity Authentication and Key Agreement using Symmetric Cryptography ECMA-412 2^nd edition - Framework for distributed real-time Access systems ECMA-413 2^nd edition - Data Migration Method for BD Recordable and BD Rewritable Disks
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27 June 2017	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Bloomberg (AM) HEAD acoustics GmbH (SME) Xitrix Computer Corporation (SME) Moddable Tech, Inc. (SPC) Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association (NFP) University of Victoria, BC, Canada (NFP)
26 January 2017	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2017
24 January 2017	Presentations from the EPFL - Ecma International Summit on Smart Wearable Systems are now also available on YouTube
7 December 2016	The 112^th General Assembly held in Santa Clara, December 7, 2016, approved the following documents: ECMA-108 6^th edition - Determination of High-frequency Sound Power Levels Emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-109 7^th edition - Declared Noise Emission Values of Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-376 5^th edition - Office Open XML File Formats Parts 1 and 4 ECMA-414 2^nd edition - ECMAScript^� Specification Suite ECMA-415 1^st edition - NFC-SEC Test Methods ECMA TR/104 2^nd edition - ECMAScript^� Test Suite ECMA TR/107 2^nd edition - An optional alternate background noise correction sensitive to the steadiness of background noise
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7 December 2016	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Bocoup (SPC) Osaka Sangyo University (NFP)

4 November 2016	Presentations from the EPFL - Ecma International Summit on Smart Wearable Systems are available
14 September 2016	Time to register to the EPFL for the International summit on smart wearable systems
6 July 2016	International summit on smart wearable systems
14 June 2016	The 111^th General Assembly held in Montreux, June 14, 2016, approved the following documents: ECMA-262 7^th edition - ECMAScript^� 2016 Language Specification ECMA-402 3^rd edition - ECMAScript^� 2016 Internationalization API Specification ECMA-413 1^st edition - Data Migration Method for BD Recordable and BD Rewritable Disks ECMA-414 1^st edition - ECMAScript^� Specification Suite
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14 June 2016	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: GoDaddy.com (AM) salesforce.com (AM) Shape Security Inc. (SME) Tilde Inc. (SPC) BAM (NFP)

5 April 2016	New Ad hoc Group on sensors in wearable and small intelligent devices
22 January 2016	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2016
December 9, 2015	The 110^th General Assembly held in Tokyo, December 9, 2015, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-328 7^th edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment ECMA-376 5^th edition Part 3- Office Open XML File Formats ECMA-408 4^th edition - Dart Programming Language Specification
December 9, 2015	Ecma International welcomes the following new members:
�	Airbnb (AM) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (AM) OITDA (NFP) Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NFP)
September 8, 2015	On 17 June 2015, the 109^th Ecma General Assembly approved new editions of Standards ECMA-370 and ECMA-400
August 18, 2015	At the 17 June 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, Ecma published 1^st edition of Access Systems standards
August 10, 2015	On 17 June 2015, the 109^th Ecma General Assembly approved new editions of NFC Standards
July 15, 2015	At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, ECMA TR/107 1st edition - "An alternate background noise correction sensitive to the steadiness of background noise" has been adopted
July 2, 2015	At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, ECMA-262 6th edition - ECMAScript� 2015 Language Specification and ECMA-402 2nd edition - ECMAScript� 2015 Internationalization API have been adopted
June 26, 2015	At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux, ECMA-408 3rd edition - the Dart programming language specification - has been adopted.
June 22, 2015	At the June 17, 2015 Ecma General Assembly in Montreux the "experimental" TC39 and TC52 Ecma Royalty-Free (RF) patent policy has become "formal" Ecma-wide patent policy option and the "experimental" TC39 software copyright policy has been promoted to a "formal" Ecma-wide software copyright policy.
June 17, 2015	The 109^th General Assembly held in Montreux, June 17, 2015, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-74 13^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise Emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-262 6^th edition - ECMAScript^� 2015 Language Specification ECMA-275 3^rd edition - Measurement of structure-borne vibration induced by small air moving devices (AMDs) ECMA-370 5^th edition - TED ECMA-385 4^th edition - NFC-SEC: NFCIP-1 Security Services and Protocol ECMA-386 3^rd edition - NFC-SEC-01: NFC-SEC Cryptography Standard using ECDH and AES ECMA-400 3^rd edition - Smart Data Centre Resource Monitoring and Control ECMA-402 2^nd edition - ECMAScript^� 2015 Internationalization API Specification ECMA-408 3^rd edition - Dart Programming Language Specification ECMA-409 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-02: NFC-SEC Cryptography Standard using ECDH-256 and AES-GCM ECMA-410 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-03: NFC-SEC Entity Authentication and Key Agreement using Asymmetric Cryptography ECMA-411 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-04: NFC-SEC Entity Authentication and Key Agreement using Symmetric Cryptography ECMA-412 1^st edition - Access Systems ECMA TR/107 1^st edition - An alternate background noise correction sensitive to the steadiness of background noise
June 17, 2015	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Twitter (AM) Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NFP)
January 23, 2015	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2015
December�11, 2014	The 108^th General Assembly held in Sapporo, December 11, 2014, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-396 3^rd edition - Test Method for the Estimation of Lifetime of Optical Disks for Long-term Data Storage ECMA-408 2^nd edition - Dart Programming Language Specification ECMA-409 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-02: NFC-SEC Cryptography Standard using ECDH-256 and AES-GCM ECMA-410 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-03: NFC-SEC Entity Authentication and Key Agreement using Asymmetric Cryptography ECMA-411 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-04: NFC-SEC Entity Authentication and Key Agreement using Symmetric Cryptography
December 11, 2014	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Meteor Development Group (SME) Imperial College London (NFP) Indiana University (NFP)
September 18, 2014	The world's first 3D audio Standard ECMA-407 showcased in IBC 2014's "future zone"
September 18, 2014	A TC39 (ECMAScript) panel discussion will be held in Boston on September 23, 2014. More details are available here.
June�25, 2014	The 107^th General Assembly held in Heidelberg, June 25, 2014, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-396 2^nd edition - Test Method for the Estimation of Lifetime of Optical Disks for Long-term Data Storage ECMA-407 1^st edition - Scalable Sparse Spatial Sound System (S5) - Base S5 Coding ECMA-408 1^st edition - Dart Programming Language Specification
June 25, 2014	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Trustwave (OM) AXA Rosenberg (SME) China IWNCOMM (SME) Knowledge Initiatives (SPC) Humanitarian Toolbox (NFP) Inria (NFP) IT University of Copenhagen(NFP) RMIT University (NFP) Universit� Laval (NFP)
February 26, 2014	2013 Download Statistics from the Ecma Public Website
February 26, 2014	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2014
December�10, 2013	The 106^th General Assembly held in Las Vegas, December 10, 2013, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-328 6^th edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment ECMA-405 1^st edition - Data Interchange on Parallel Write/Read Disk Format for 5 Optical Disks ECMA-406 1^st edition - Disk Cassette for 5 Disks with 120�mm Diameter
December 10, 2013	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Facebook (AM) JR East Mechatronics (AM) Omron Social Solutions (AM) Xamarin (SME) New Audio Technology (SPC) Aarhus University (NFP) Francetelevisions (NFP) Hosei University (NFP) Radio France (NFP)
November 11, 2013	Presentation to IMTC 20th Anniversary Forum, Porto, October 2013 by Mr. Clemens Par (Convenor of Ecma TC32-TG22) who will participate to the Conference on November 18, 2013 at 16�me Forum du Son Multicanal in Paris
September 20, 2013	Panel discussion at Bocoup in Boston about the JavaScript (ECMAScript - ECMA-262) language (available on YouTube here)
September 6, 2013	Ecma workshop on Dart
June�11, 2013	The 105^th General Assembly held in Nice, June 11, 2013, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-340 3^rd edition - Near Field Communication - Interface and Protocol (NFCIP-1) ECMA-352 3^rd edition - Near Field Communication Interface and Protocol -2 (NFCIP-2) ECMA-385 3^rd edition - NFC-SEC: NFCIP-1 Security Services and Protocol ECMA-356 2^nd edition - NFCIP-1 - RF Interface Test Methods ECMA-400 2^nd edition - Smart Data Centre Resource Monitoring and Control ECMA-403 1^st edition - NFCIP-2 Test Methods
June 11, 2013	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: McGill University (SPC) Wikimedia Foundation (SPC)
May 7, 2013	Ecma recognition to JTC 1 on their 25 years Anniversary
March 19, 2013	Loss of two Ecma friends and collaborators Mr. Francois Le Carvennec and Mr. Mike Deese
March 15, 2013	New Ecma Technical Report TR/106 "Guidance and Comparison between 60950-1 and 62368-1"
March 6, 2013	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2013
January 11, 2013	2nd International Workshop on Standards and Technologies �in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR) - call for participation
December�12, 2012	The 104^th General Assembly held in Sapporo, December 12, 2012, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-74 12^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-109 6^th edition - Declared Noise Emission Values of Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-376 4^th edition - Office Open XML File Formats ECMA-402 1^st edition - ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification ECMA TR/105 1^st edition - A Shaped Noise File Representative of Speech
December 12, 2012	Ecma International welcomes the following new member: Swissaudec (SPC)
September 21, 2012	2nd International Workshop on Standards and Technologies �in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR)
June�25, 2012	The 103^rd General Assembly held in Vienna, June 25, 2012, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-335 6^th edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) ECMA-348 5^th edition - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for CSTA Phase III ECMA-373 2^nd edition - Near Field Communication Wired Interface (NFC–WI) ECMA-390 2^nd edition - Front-End Configuration Command for NFC-WI (NFC-FEC) ECMA-392 2^nd edition - MAC and PHY for Operation in TV White Space ECMA-393 2^nd edition - proxZzzy^TM for sleeping hosts ECMA TR/84 6^th edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) - Information Derived from Partition IV XML File
June 25, 2012	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: eBay (OM) Tadiran Telecom (SME) jQuery Foundation (NFP)
February 21, 2012	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2012
December�6, 2011	The 102^nd General Assembly held in San Francisco, December 6, 2011, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-269 9^th edition - Services for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA-285 4^th edition - ASN.1 for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA-323 6^th edition - XML Protocol for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase�III ECMA-366 3^rd edition - WS-Session - Web Services for Application Session Services ECMA-400 1^st edition - Smart Data Centre Resource Monitoring and Control ECMA-401 1^st edition - Close Capacitive Coupling Communication Physical Layer (CCCC PHY) ECMA TR/104 1^st edition - ECMA-262 Test Suite
December 6, 2011	Ecma International welcomes the following new member: Nomad3D (SPC)
September 30, 2011	Ecma International mourns the loss of Mike Smith
September 5, 2011	ISO Focus+: 50 years of ICT collaboration
August 19, 2011	Change of guards in the management of Ecma TC26 - Acoustics
July 19, 2011	ANSI congratulates Ecma International on its 50^th Anniversary
July 5, 2011	Ecma publishes new Standard on Close Proximity Electric Induction Wireless Communications
June 30, 2011	Ecma International celebrates its 50^th anniversary
June 30, 2011	ISO/IEC and Ecma International ratify “ES5.1”, the latest ECMAScript specification of Ecma International
June�29, 2011	The 101^st General Assembly held in Divonne, June 29, 2011, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-262 5.1 edition - ECMAScript Language Specification ECMA-376 3^rd edition - Office Open XML File Formats ECMA-398 1^st edition - Close Proximity Electric Induction Wireless Communications ECMA-399 1^st edition - Procedure for the Registration of Assigned Numbers for ECMA-398 ECMA TR/103 1^st edition - Business Trunking - NGCN-NGN Interfaces Implementation Guide
June 29, 2011	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Broadcom (AM) EPFL (NFP) University of Electro-Communications (NFP)
March 2, 2011	Ecma publishes new Standard on Test Method for the Estimation of Lifetime of Optical Media for Long-term Data Storage
February 17, 2011	New Ecma Technical Report surveys Personal Network architecture and standardisation needs
January 20, 2011	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2011
December�8, 2010	The 100^th General Assembly held in Montreux, December 8, 2010, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-74 11^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-108 5^th edition - Measurement of High-frequency Noise emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-109 5^th edition - Declared Noise Emission Values of Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-285 3^rd edition - Protocol for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA-328 5^th edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment ECMA-335 5^th edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Partitions I to VI ECMA-341 4^th edition - Environmental Design Considerations for ICT & CE Products ECMA-383 3^rd edition - Measuring the Energy Consumption of Personal Computing Products ECMA-387 2^nd edition - High Rate 60 GHz PHY, MAC and PALs ECMA-394 1^st edition - Recordable Compact Disc Systems CD-R Multi-Speed ECMA-395 1^st edition - Recordable Compact Disc Systems CD-RW Ultra-Speed ECMA-396 1^st edition - Test Method for the Estimation of Lifetime of Optical Media for Long-term Data Storage ECMA-397 1^st edition - SDVLC ECMA TR/84 5^th edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) - Information Derived from Partition IV XML File ECMA TR/92 2^nd edition - Corporate Telecommunication Networks – Mobility for Enterprise Communications ECMA TR/99 2^nd edition - Constant Sound Power Fan Curves for Small Air-moving Devices ECMA TR/101 2^nd edition - Next Generation Corporate Networks (NGCN) - Emergency Calls ECMA TR/102 1^st edition - Personal Networks – Overview and Standardization Needs
December 8, 2010	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Dr. G.R. Damodaran College of Science (NFP) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (NFP)
June�17, 2010	The 99^th General Assembly held in Tokyo, June 17, 2010, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-352 2^nd edition - Near Field Communication Interface and Protocol -2 (NFCIP-2) ECMA-379 3^rd edition - Test Method for the Estimation of the Archival Lifetetime of Optical Media ECMA-382 2^nd edition - 120�mm (8,54 Gbytes per side) and 80 mm (2,66�Gbytes per side) DVD Recordable Disk for Dual Layer (DVD-R for DL) ECMA-385 2^nd edition - NFC-SEC: NFCIP-1 Security Services and Protocol ECMA-386 2^nd edition - NFC-SEC-01: NFC-SEC Cryptography Standard using ECDH and AES
June 17, 2010	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Brown University (NFP) The Center For the Image (NFP)
May 6, 2010	EPFL and Ecma International organized a successful International Workshop on Standards and Technologies in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR)
May 3, 2010	Ecma International publishes ProxZzzy Standard for network connected sleep
April 9, 2010	The agenda of the 1^st International Workshop on Standards and Technologies�in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR) is available here
March 18, 2010	Ecma International has published its annual yearbook Ecma Memento 2010
February 19, 2010	Standard ECMA-393 "ProxZzzy for sleeping hosts" was approved in February 2010 by letter ballot
February 18, 2010	1^st International Workshop on Standards and Technologies �in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR) 26^th - 27^th April 2010, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
December 22, 2009	Ecma International approves new Patent Policy Document (“Code of Conduct in Patent Matters”)
December 15, 2009	Ecma International approves major revision of ECMAScript
December�3, 2009	The 98^th General Assembly held in Mountain View, December 3, 2009, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-392 1^st edition - MAC and PHY for operation in TV White Space ECMA-391 1^st edition - Memory-Spot Interface and Protocol (MSIP-1) ECMA-390 1^st edition - Front-End Configuration Command ECMA-389 1^st edition - Procedure for the Registration of Categories for ECMA-383 2^nd edition ECMA-383 2^nd edition - Measuring the Energy Consumption of Personal Computing Products�� ECMA-328 4^th edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment ECMA-262 5^th edition - ECMAScript Language Specification ECMA TR/101 1^st edition - Next Generation Corporate Networks (NGCN) - Emergency Calls ECMA TR/100 1^st edition - Next Generation Corporate Networks (NGCN) - Security of Session-based Communications ECMA TR/99 1^st edition - Constant Sound Power Fan Curves for Small Air-moving Devices
December 3, 2009	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: NVIDIA (OM) QUADRAC (SPC) Archive Disc Test Center (NFP)
June�16, 2009	The 97^th General Assembly held in Budapest, June 16, 2009, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-388 1^st edition - Open XML Paper Specification ECMA-370 4^th edition - TED - �� ECMA-348 4^th edition - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for CSTA Phase III ECMA-323 5^th edition - XML Protocol for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA-269 8^th edition - Services for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA TR/98 1^st edition - JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) ECMA TR/97 1^st edition - Guide for Assessment of Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields from Multimedia Products in accordance with IEC/EN 62311 ECMA TR/82 2^nd edition - Scenarios for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III
June 16, 2009	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: AMD (OM) Company 100 (SPC) Staff DotNet (SPC) University of South Florida (NFP) Institute of Computer Science & Technology - Peking University (NFP)
April 22, 2009	TC46 releases final draft of XML Paper Specification 1.6
February 18, 2009	Ecma historical archive has been completed on the Ecma website
December 16, 2008	Ecma publishes ECMA-376 Edition 2
December 8, 2008	Ecma publishes 60 GHz Standard
December�4, 2008	The 96^th General Assembly held in Nice, December 4, 2008, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-387 1^st edition - High Rate 60 GHz PHY, MAC and HDMI PAL ECMA-386 1^st edition - NFC-SEC-01: NFC-SEC Cryptography Standard using ECDH and AES ECMA-385 1^st edition - NFC-SEC: NFCIP-1 Security Services and Protocol ECMA-384 1^st edition - 120 mm (8,54 Gbytes per side) and 80 mm (2,66 Gbytes per side) DVD Re-recordable Disk for Dual Layer (DVD-RW for DL) ECMA-379 2^nd edition - Test Method for the Estimation of the Archival Lifetime of Optical Media ECMA-376 2^nd edition -Office Open XML File Formats ECMA-370 3^rd edition - TED - �� ECMA-369 3^rd edition - MAC-PHY Interface for ECMA-368 ECMA-368 3^rd edition - High Rate Ultra Wideband PHY and MAC Standard ECMA-108 4^th edition - Measurement of High-frequency Noise emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-74 10^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise Emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment
December 4, 2008	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Fuji Xerox (AM) Realtek Semiconductor (AM) Right Hemisphere (SME) Delft University of Technology (NFP) IBBT (NFP) LBNL (NFP) Software Engineering Institute (NFP) UC Santa Cruz (NFP) US Department of Defense (NFP)
November 20, 2008	Ecma demonstrates multi-gigabit radio
September 4, 2008	Ecma historical archive has been published on the Ecma website
September 2, 2008	WiMedia Alliance and Ecma International formalize joint development relationship
August 19, 2008	Ecma Technical Committee 39 coalesces on future direction of Web Programming Language (the white paper is available here)
June 18, 2008	Release of working draft XML Paper Specification 1.2 and availability of a feedback channel
June 10, 2008	The 95^th General Assembly held in San Jose, June 10, 2008, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA TR/96 1^st edition - Next Generation Corporate Networks (NGCN) - Identification and Routing ECMA TR/95 1^st edition - Next Generation Corporate Networks (NGCN) - General ECMA-383 1^st edition - Measuring Energy Consumption, Performance and Capabilities of ICT and CE Products ECMA-382 1^st edition - 120 mm (8,54 Gbytes per side) and 80�mm (2,66 Gbytes per side) DVD Recordable Disk for Dual Layer (DVD-R for DL) ECMA-374 2^nd edition - Data Interchange on 120�mm and 80�mm Optical Disk using +RW DL Format – Capacity: 8,55 and 2,66�Gbytes per Side (Recording speed 2,4X) ECMA-371 2^nd edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm Optical Disk using +RW HS Format - Capacity: 4,7 and 1,46�Gbytes per Side (Recording speed 8X) ECMA-366 2^nd edition - WS-Session - Web Services for Application Session Services ECMA-355 3^rd edition - Corporate Telecommunication Networks - Tunnelling of QSIG over SIP ECMA-349 4^th edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm Optical Disk using +R Format – Capacity: 4,7 and 1,46 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed up to 16X) ECMA-341 3^rd edition - Environmental Design Considerations for ICT & CE Products ECMA-337 4^th edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80�mm Optical Disk using +RW Format – Capacity: 4,7 and 1,46 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed up to 4X)
June 10, 2008	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: NEC Europe (AM) Opera Software (SME) Sixtycom (SPC) Dojo Foundation (NFP) Institute for Infocomm Research (NFP) Northeastern University (NFP) Stanford University (NFP)
April 21, 2008	ISO and IEC have published ISO/IEC 10995 (ECMA-379), a test method for the estimation of the archival lifetime of optical media
April 1, 2008	ISO and IEC approve Office Open XML document format standard
March 3, 2008	Restructuration of some Ecma Technical Committees and Task Groups
March 3, 2008	Fast-track of ECMA-376: ISO/IEC Ballot Resolution Meeting concluded – Final 30 days of National Body deliberation on DIS 29500
February 5, 2008	ISO and IEC approve optical disc test standard for archival grade media
January 14, 2008	Proposed dispositions for National Body comments on DIS 29500 complete – New phase to begin
January 7, 2008	Continued progress in addressing National Body comments for DIS 29500 – Final disposition report due next week
December 21, 2007	New proposed dispositions extend progress in addressing all National Body comments, seek to document and resolve legacy issues – Nearly 2/3 of comments now reviewed
December 13, 2007	The 94^th General Assembly held in Nice, December 13, 2007, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA TR/93 1^st edition - Measuring Emissions from Modules ECMA TR/94 1^st edition - Assessment of the Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields for Low Power Electronic and Electrical Apparatus according to EN�50371:2002 ECMA-364 3^rd edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm Optical Disk using +R DL Format – Capacity: 8,55 and 2,66 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed up to 16X) ECMA-368 2^nd edition - High Rate Ultra Wideband PHY and MAC Standard ECMA-369 2^nd edition - MAC-PHY Interface for ECMA-368 ECMA-380 1^st edition - Data Interchange on 130�mm Rewritable and Write Once Read Many Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Disk Cartridges – Capacity: 60 Gbytes per Cartridge – Second Generation ECMA-381 1^st edition - Procedure for the Registration of Assigned Numbers for ECMA-368 and ECMA-369
December 13, 2007	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Google (OM) Monotype Imaging (AM) SGI (AM) Ensphere Solutions (SME) Pagemark (SME) Staff DotNet (SPC) Kahu Research (NFP) Stichting NLnet(NFP)
December 11, 2007	New set of proposed dispositions posted, including more positive changes to the Ecma Office Open XML formats - Dispositions now proposed for more than half of National Bodies’ comments
November 21, 2007	Ecma’s Eco Standards eminent in EuP studies that prepare legal implementation of EU eco-design directive
November 19, 2007	Ecma Office Open XML File Format comment review – First group of 662 proposed dispositions of comments posted to online portal
October 18, 2007	New web portal to review the Ecma Office Open XML File Format comments
September 12, 2007	Ecma helps to understand chemical emissions
September 3, 2007	Office Open XML fast-track status
August 3, 2007	ECMA-376: Office Open XML File Formats Gain Momentum
July 30, 2007	White Paper on Office Open XML in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish	July 5, 2007	Ecma International releases the 4^th Edition of the Universal 3D (U3D) File Format Standard
July 4, 2007	Ecma releases new Holographic Information Storage Standards
July 3, 2007	Ecma International created TC46 to standardize XML Paper Specification
July 2, 2007	OSTA and Ecma International announce issuance of optical disc archival test Standard
June 28, 2007	The 93^rd General Assembly held in Prien am Chiemsee, June 28, 2007, approved the following documents:
	ECMA-328 3^rd edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment ECMA-363 4^th edition - Universal 3D File Format ECMA-379 1^st edition - Test Method for the Estimation of the Archival Lifetime of Optical Media
June 28, 2007	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Global Graphics (OM) Konica Minolta (OM) Lexmark (OM) Xerox (OM) Autodesk (AM) Brother Industries (AM) Zoran Corporation (AM) QualityLogic (SME) Software Imaging (SME) Wilocity (SME) Red Monday (SPC) Terra Novum (SPC) GNOME Foundation (NFP) IMEC (NFP) NICTA (NFP)
June 11, 2007	Two new HVD Standards (ECMA-377 and ECMA-378) adopted by postal ballot
May 4, 2007	Prof. Bertrand Meyer�have won the�Software System�Award which is one of the most prestigious awards in computer science. For more information, you may consult the press release from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Ecma press release.
April 2, 2007	Change of Guards in the Ecma Management
April 2, 2007	Office Open XML reaches next step in ISO/IEC process
February 12, 2007	Ecma develops 60 GHz radio standard
December 7, 2006	The 92^nd General Assembly held in Z�rich, December 7, 2006, approved the following documents:
	ECMA-269 7^th edition - Services for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA-323 4^th edition - XML Protocol for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III ECMA-339 2^nd edition - Corporate Telecommunication Networks - Signalling Interworking between QSIG and SIP - Basic Services ECMA-348 3^rd edition - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for CSTA Phase III ECMA-350 3^rd edition - Data Interchange on 130 mm Rewritable and Write Once Read Many Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Disk Cartridges - Capacity: 30 Gbytes per Cartridge - First Generation ECMA-370 2^nd edition - TED�-� ECMA-374 1^st edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm Optical Disk using +RW DL Format – Capacity: 8,55 and 2,66 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed 2,4x) ECMA-375 1^st edition - Case for 120 mm HVD-ROM disk ECMA-376 1^st edition - Office Open XML File Formats
December 7, 2006	Ecma International welcomes the following new members: NXP Semiconductors (AM) ilink Kommunikationssysteme (SME) Troll Hill Ventures (SME) NewLANS (SPC) Teikyo Heisei University (NFP) Korea University (NFP) Georgia Technology (NFP) ETRI (NFP)
December 7, 2006	Ecma International approves Office Open XML standard
November 29, 2006	CompTIA approves the Open XML Open Standard
October 23, 2006	White Paper on Office Open XML
October 9, 2006	Office Open XML Formats (TC45) - Final Draft
September 28, 2006	Last results about Office Open XML Formats (TC45)
August 23, 2006	Office Open XML Formats (TC45) - Intermediate Draft 1.4
August 17, 2006	Last results about Office Open XML Formats (TC45)
July 25, 2006	OSTA and Ecma join forces to establish industry-wide optical disk archival testing Standard
June 22, 2006	The 91^st General Assembly held in Sapporo, June 22, 2006, approved the following documents:
	ECMA-328 2^nd edition - Determination of Chemical Emission Rates from Electronic Equipment ECMA-334 4^th edition - C# Language Specification ECMA-335 4^th edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) ECMA-363 3^rd edition - Universal 3D File Format ECMA-364 2^nd edition - Data interchange on 120 mm and 80�mm Optical Disk using +R DL Format – Capacity: 8,55 and 2,66 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed up to 8x) ECMA-367 2^nd edition - Eiffel analysis, design and programming Language ECMA-370 - TED�-� ECMA-373 - Near Field Communication Wired Interface (NFC-WI) ECMA TR/84 4^th edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) - Information Derived from Partition IV XML File ECMA TR/89 2^nd edition - Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) - Common Generics
June 21, 2006	Ecma Office Open XML File Formats Standard - Status Report - 21 June 2006 (TC45)
May 18, 2006	Last results about Office Open XML Formats (TC45)
December 15, 2005	TC45 begins the creation of the Ecma XML document format standard
December 9, 2005	The Ecma General Assembly created TC45 to standardise office document formats
December 9, 2005	The 90^th General Assembly held in Nice, December 9, 2005, approved the following documents:
�	ECMA-74 9^th edition - Measurement of Airborne Noise Emitted by Information Technology and Telecommunications Equipment ECMA-337 3^rd edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm - Optical Disk using +RW Format - Capacity: 4,7 and 1,46 Gbytes per side (Recording speed up to 4X) ECMA-349 3^rd edition - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm Optical Disk using +R Format - Capacity: 4,7 and 1,46 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed up to 16X) ECMA-350 2^nd edition - Data Interchange on 130 mm Rewritable and Write Once Read Many Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Disk Cartridges - Capacity: 30 Gbytes per Cartridge - First Generation ECMA-357 2^nd edition - ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification ECMA-362 2^nd edition - NFCIP-1 - Protocol Test Methods ECMA-368 - High Rate Ultra Wideband PHY and MAC Standard ECMA-369 - MAC-PHY Interface for ECMA-368 ECMA-371 - Data Interchange on 120 mm and 80 mm Optical Disk using +RW HS Format - Capacity: 4,7 and 1,46 Gbytes per Side (Recording speed 8X) ECMA-372 - C++/CLI Language Specification ECMA TR/90 - Session Management, Event Notification, and Computing Function Services - Amendments for ECMA-348 ECMA TR/91 - Enterprise Communication in Next Generation Corporate Networks (NGCN) involving Public Next Generation Networks (NGN) ECMA TR/92 - Corporate Telecommunication Networks – Mobility for Enterprise Communications �

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