On December 13, 2001, the ECMA General Assembly ratified the C# and common language infrastructure (CLI) specifications into international standards. The ECMA standards will be known as ECMA-334 (C#) and ECMA-335 (the CLI). There is also a technical report on the CLI which will be known as ECMA TR84. In addition, ECMA approved the fast-track motion of these specifications to ISO. This is a huge step toward the Microsoft .NET Framework being widely accepted by the industry.
For Microsoft, this is the end of more than a year of standards work, and this ratification is a vote of confidence in the C# and CLI technologies both from ECMA and from the member companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel who helped develop the standards.The approval of these standards is the culmination of extensive technical work from Microsoft, the cosponsoring companies Hewlett-Packard and Intel, and the many other ECMA member companies that contributed to this work, including IBM, Fujitsu, and Plum Hall.
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