What are Forum in Data Communication?

What are Forum in Data Communication?

Forums are special groups of people with common interests. There are many online forums available over internet in which participants with common interests exchange their views. Same like this, there are forums for Standards. These forums have the representatives from different companies who are interested in a specific kind of technology. The process of standardization becomes fast through these forums as each form focuses on some specific technology. The forums by working with universities, users and companies perform analysis and evaluations on standards then provide these analyses to standard developing committees for standard development.