Ecma, the same organization that governs the standardization and development of JavaScript (or "EcmaScript" as it's known in standardese), has created a committee to oversee the publication of a standard for Google's alternative Web language, Dart.

Technical Committee 52 will develop standards for Dart language and libraries, create test suites to verify conformance with the standards, and oversee Dart's future development. Other technical committees within Ecma perform similar work for EcmaScript, C#, and the Eiffel language.

Google released version 1.0 of the Dart SDK last month and believes that the language is sufficiently stable and mature to be both used in a production capacity and put on the track toward creating a formal standard. The company asserts that this will be an important step toward embedding native Dart support within browsers.