U.S. National Standards

Definition
U.S. National Standards are

"[s]tandard[] formally approved and recognized by ANSI, the official U.S. representative to the ISO and IEC organizations mentioned above. The titles of these standards include the acronym ANSI. One example of these standards is ANSI/NIST–Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) 1-2000, Standard Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Scar Mark & Tattoo, an ANSI-approved standard. . .."