Ecma International

Ecma International proudly marks its 65th anniversary, celebrating more than six decades of leadership in developing open, industry‑driven standards for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE). Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

Ecma International approves NLIP standards suite for universal AI agent communication. These new AI communication standards enable cross-domain agent interoperability through envelope protocol approach. Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

The 130th General Assembly held in Geneva on 10 December 2025 approved a new Ecma recognition award to honour Luoming Zhang who served as the Ecma Treasurer and a member of the ExeCom from 2022 to 2025. He has also been an active participant in TC31, TC38 and TC51.

At the 130th General Assembly held in Geneva on 10 December 2025, Ecma International welcomed the two following members: the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and the Chicago State University. Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

The 130th General Assembly held in Geneva on 10 December 2025 approved new editions of the following Standards: ECMA-74, ECMA-119, ECMA-424 and ECMA-425. New specifications adopted: ECMA-427, ECMA-428, ECMA-429, ECMA-430, ECMA-431, ECMA-432, ECMA-433, ECMA-434 and ECMA TR/113.

TC56 on Natural Language Interaction Protocol (NLIP) for communication with AI agents calls for participation and comments on revised NLIP specification and new WebSocket binding. Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

The 129th General Assembly held in Geneva on 25 June 2025 approved four new Ecma recognition awards to honour Touradj Ebrahimi, Hyun Kahng, Robert Palmer and Michael Saboff for their contributions and services to Ecma. More information is available at ecma-international.org/news/

At the 129th General Assembly, Ecma International welcomed the following new members: Consensys Software (AM) Socket (SPC) Fordham University (NFP) Kindai University (NFP) The Apache Software Foundation (NFP) The University at Buffalo (NFP)

The 129th General Assembly held in Geneva on 25 June 2025 approved the following Standards: ECMA-74 21st edition, ECMA-109 11th edition, ECMA-262 16th edition, ECMA-402 12th edition, ECMA-403 2nd edition, ECMA-418-2 4th edition and ECMA-419 3rd edition.

Ecma TC56 on Natural Language Interaction Protocol (NLIP) for communication with AI agents is calling for participation and comments from interested stakeholders on the development of a standard protocol for communication among AI agents. Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

W3C and Ecma International have collaborated to create a new TC55 for the development of a common web-aligned API surface for server-side JavaScript runtimes like Node.js, Deno and Cloudflare Workers. Stay tuned at: ecma-international.org/news/

Ecma published on 12 December 2024 a new standard ECMA-425 that specifies a statistical background correction for information technology and telecommunications equipment noise measurements. More information available at ecma-international.org/news/

Geneva, 12 December 2024 The 128th General Assembly held in New York approved the following documents: ECMA-119 5th edition, ECMA-418-1 3rd edition, ECMA-418-2 3rd edition, ECMA-420 3rd edition, ECMA-425 1st edition and ECMA-426 1st edition Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

Geneva, 12 December 2024 At the 128th General Assembly held in New York on 11 December 2024, Ecma International welcomed the following new member: Cloudflare (AM) Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

We are honored to be recipients of the 2024 JavaScriptLandia community award, presented by the OpenJS Foundation at NodeConf EU. The two Ecma winners are Chris de Almeida, IBM delegate and Ecma TC39 co-chair together with Samina Husain, Ecma Secretary General.

Ecma International and the Open Compute Project are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration for standardization of work produced by OCP storage projects. More details at ecma-international.org/news/establish…

The 127th General Assembly held in Geneva on 26 June 2024 approved five new editions of Standards and a new Standard ECMA-424 – CycloneDX Bill of materials specification. Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

Geneva, 4 July 2024 Ecma International welcomes the following new members: Functional Software (AM) JetBrains (AM) HeroDevs (SME) Record Replay (SPC) AboutCode (NFP) Open Source Business Alliance (NFP) University of Turku (NFP) Stay tuned at ecma-international.org/news/

The 126th General Assembly held in Cupertino on 5 December 2023 approved four new Ecma recognition awards to honour Taku Hoshizawa, Myles Borins, Shane F. Carr and Mark Miller for their contributions and services to Ecma. More information is available at #ecma-recognition-award" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ecma-international.org/ecma-fellow-aw…

Ecma International is pleased to welcome the two following new members: Lockheed Martin (AM) and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation (NFP). Check out the latest news on the Ecma International website (ecma-international.org/news/)