The board is working on standards for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Other groups, including the American National Standards Institute, are also working on standards and codes for electric cars.
The Internet providers responded that they were working on standards, and that their much-delayed proposal would be published this fall.
The group is working on standards that will let developers create programs that can run on any social network or Web site that embraces them.
Mr. McCaleb said the department was also working on standards for accounting for Indian money, with the complete strategy due by Jan . 6
But the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), a multi-industry forum working on standards to "copy-protect" CDs and online music files, is way behind schedule.
The global auto industry has yet to agree on a standardized shape for the connectors that will replenish the batteries of electric cars, though the Society of Automotive Engineers has been working on standards for such a plug for more than two years.
William Webb is a visiting professor at Surrey University and heads a special interest group, the Weightless SIG, which is working on standards to secure data collected and sent over the internet by gadgets.
Continua Health Alliance, an industry group, is also working on standards so that medical apps collect data in compatible formats, allowing patients to move their data from one app to another.
For example, a panel chaired by Nakasone is working on standards for the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
We are working on standards for a more uniform DQA, with protocols, addressing the collimators used, phantom activity and placement, energy window verification, and detector distance.
