Standards and Standardization Bodies

Standards Bodies

International

• International standards organizations
• International standardizing bodies

Regional

• ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute - Europe

National

• National Standards Bodies

National Standards Developers

• U.S. Standards Developing Organizations - USA

Consortia and fora

• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Society
• The Open Group (includes X/Open and OSF)
• The X Consortium
• EWOS - European Workshop on Open Systems - Europe
• OMG - Object Management Group
• ODMG - Object Database Management Group
• The ATM Forum
• NMF - Network Management Forum

Standards

International

• ISO standards committees
• IEC Publication 417 - Graphical Symbols for Use on Equipment
• IETF Internet-Drafts
• IETF Request For Comments Documents (RFC's)
• IEC some aspects - Ikeda Lab., Chiba University
• ISO 14000 Information
• ISO 14000 West Coast Working Group
• ISO Guide 25 Listserv page
• ISSN (site in Norway), ISSN (site in US)
• SQL Standards
• SGML information via ftp
• Unicode (ISO 10646) information via WWW and via ftp
• X.400 FAQ via ftp
• CASEData Interchange Format

Regional

• ECMA - Europe
• Open Information Interchange report (IMPACT) - Europe

National

• National Product Data Exchange Resource Center - USA
• Norwegian NORSOK standards - Norway
• Z39.50 - Information Retrieval Service and Protocol standard - USA
• TurBoard NAPLPS BBS Information - USA
• US Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC JTC 1 - USA

Commercial sector, miscellaneous

• Safety Link
• Communications Standards Review
• QMI - ISO 9000 third-party registrar
• OnQual - Australia
• Overview of proposed standards for a home network - USA
• Conversion software between Metric, Imperial, USA
• Custom Standards Services, Inc.
• Information Handling Services
• Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research