This essay chooses one of the working groups under IETF and briefly reviews it. The essay shall also substantiate the need for IEEE 802 Standard’s used in wireless networking. An assessment of ANSI, ISO, and IEEE shall be carried out to determine which is the most important in the communication technology world. In conclusion, the essay shall substantiate as well as give supporting verification as to the need for federal regulating bodies of standards similar to NIST. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a big global group of network researchers, vendors, designers, and operators. Any interested individual can join IETF since it is an open organization. It is concerned with the Internet’s smooth operation as well as its architecture evolution (IETF, n.d.). Its actual work is done in its working groups, which are the main mechanisms for IETF specifications and guidelines development. Specific guidelines are produced and particular problems addressed by IETF Working Groups (IETF, n.d.). Codec is a Working Group of IETF. A Codec assists in the encoding of a data stream to signal for encryption, transmission, or storage. Its goal is to ensure high-quality audio codec is available over the internet, and it can be implemented by service operators, application developers, and end-users (IETF, n.d.). The (IEEE) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional organization and a front runner in technological advancements that deals with LANS and WANS. The use of IEEE standards offers advantages such as interoperability, lower production costs, and stable future migration (Geier, 2001).  1. Interoperability – IEEE facilitates interoperability between pieces of equipment from different retailers and the elected network kind. It means individuals can purchase an IEEE 802 compliant flatbed scanner and an IEEE 802 handheld scanner from different vendors, and both can efficiently interoperate within the set network as long as the configuration parameters are equally set in both scanners. Interoperability provides choices in that an individual is not forced to depend on one vendor for devices (Geier, 2001).  2. Lost cost – Networking components can be developed by companies at a lower development and research cost if they comply with the standards (Geier, 2001).  3. Stable future migration – Standards compliance help to protect a company’s investments when the need for upgrading or replacement arises. It is because once a company installs a base network that is standard-compliant, all they have to do in the future is to build on that base instead of installing a new system (Geier, 2001). ISO, ANSI & IEEE are some of the widely known and used standards organizations. Each standard deals with different aspects of everyday life. The (ISO) International Organization for Standardization mainly deals with products and services safety, high-quality, and reliability. It deals in areas such as energy efficiency and sustainability, food, water, healthcare, and climate (Stalling, 2009). Although the (ANSI) American National Standards Institute does not develop standards directly, it oversees and accredits standards coming from other organizations (Stalling, 2009). For e