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Interim Standards are provisional guidelines issued by an industry body to keep devices and networks interoperable while more formal standards are being developed. In mobile communications, the Telecommunications Industry Association created these Interim Standards to guide manufacturers and carriers as the technology evolved. For example, IS-95—an early CDMA standard—was published as an Interim Standard by TIA. Other organizations like IEEE or ITU handle different standards areas, and the FCC regulates and enforces rules but does not author these interim specifications. So the entity responsible for these Interim Standards in mobile is the Telecommunications Industry Association.