National Institute of Standards and Technology:
NIST is the federal technology agency that works with industry to
develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards.
http://www.nist.gov/
Free Online Dictionary of Computing:
Explains what a standard is with links to additional information.
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?standard
IEEE:
Acronyms, buzzwords, and commonly asked questions about Standards.
http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/buzzwords.html
International Organization for Standardization:
Worldwide federation of national standards bodies from 130 countries
and non-governmental, promoting the development of standardization
and related activities resulting in international agreements which
are published as International Standards.
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage
Digital Display Working Group:
Open industry group lead by Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard,
IBM, NEC and Silicon Image. Addressing the industry's requirements
for a digital connectivity specification for high-performance PCs
and digital displays.
http://www.ddwg.org/
Standards Watch from EDTN Network:
Find standards documents for purchase or research. Includes hot
topics, where you can find the most recently published standards,
and a glossary of standards acroynms.
http://www.edtn.com/standards.htm
Today's Standards Making Architecture:
Article from the Internet Society by Anthony M. Rutkowski.
http://www.isoc.org/internet/standards/papers/amr-on-standards.shtml
ANSI Standard (X3.64) Control Sequences:
For video terminals and peripherals in alphabetic order by mnemonic.
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ansi.html
American National Standards Institute:
ANSI serves as administrator and coordinator of the United States
private sector voluntary standardization system. Founded by five
engineering societes and three government agencies, the Institute
remains a private, nonprofit membership organization supported by a
diverse constituency of private and public sector organizations.
http://web.ansi.org/
IDEMA Standards:
The storage drive industry organization has infmation on its various
standards committees and their tasks. A number of standards
documents on the topic of microcontamination are available for
download in PDF format.
http://www.idema.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3254
