DICOM

developing industry standards, through managing and conducting the consensus approval process of the accredited standards committee for voluntary, national, consensus standards relating to digital imaging and communications in medicine that the proposed standard has achieved consensus by ballot of the published consensus body; testing for consensus achievement; managing comments received; and resolution of the comments so that consensus can be achieved, pursuant to guidelines developed by the accredited standards committee and published by the sponsor or at the direction of the secretariat of the American national standards institute or the accredited standards committee