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 UTF-8, an encoding form for Unicode character sets, for government digital services and technology encodes all Unicode characters without changing the ASCII code.

Unicode is based on the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set.

UTF-8 is an international standard used by, data scientists, data analysts and developers. It allows you to read, write, store and exchange text that remains stable over time and across different systems. It also have accurately translated languages moving between systems and prevent accidental or unanticipated corruption of text as it transfers between systems.

This makes UTF-8 flexible for a wide range of uses.

The government chooses standards using the open standards approval process and the Open Standards Board has final approval. Read more about the approval process for cross-platform character encoding. 

All vehicles (VEH01) is a dataset of all licensed and registered vehicles in Great Britain and the UK, produced by Department for Transport.

It contains licensed vehicles, registered vehicles for the first time, vehicles by numbers of keepers, Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) and the Ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEVs).

For more information please contact Vehicles statistics

Emailvehicles.stats@dft.gov.uk

Public enquiries: 020 7944 3077

ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organisation to deal with particular fields of technical activity. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.

The Cyberspace is a complex environment resulting from the interaction of people, software and services on the Internet, supported by worldwide distributed physical information and communications technology (ICT) devices and connected networks. However there are numerous security gaps not covered by current information security, Internet security, network security and ICT security. The aim of this international standard is to address Cyberspace security issues and bridge the gap between different security domains in the cyberspace.

International Standard provides technical guidance for addressing common cybersecurity risks such as social engineering, hacking, spyware and proliferation of malicious software.

It also provides guidelines for addressing risk such as preparing for attacks, detecting and monitoring attacks and responding to attacks.

The International Standard also provides a framework for information sharing, coordination, and incident handling.

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is an email standard that used in email transactional activity. It helps validates a senders identity using Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). The receiving email service uses SPF and DKIM to confirm the sender’s identity. If the receiving email service confirms the sender’s identity it will forward the email to the receiver’s inbox. If the receiving email service cannot confirm the sender’s identity it will mark the email as spam. 

Using DMARC has its benefits such as helps to protect the users, employees from cybercrime, reduce customer support costs relating to email fraud and improve trust in the emails organisation sends and receives.

Open Document Formats (ODF) 1.2 standard was selected by the Open Standards Board for use across the UK government. ODF works on most operating systems (including desktops, laptops, mobiles and tablets). This is because it is an open standards that allows suppliers to create interoperable office productivity solutions, can lower IT costs as ODF is low cost or free to use, allows government staff to share and edit documents, allows stricter security checks therefore helping it to prevent common cyber-attack scenarios, can add digital signatures to a document. 

ODF standard works with several software tools as Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android operating systems as well as many others. User needs are very important when selecting an ODF complaint solution, therefore the research and analysis is critical.

The standard also includes the following information:

• Buying ODF compliant solutions

• Migrating to ODF compliant solutions

• Securing ODF compliant solutions

• Integrating ODF compliant solutions

• Setting up ODF complaint solutions