INTERNET & NETWORKING:
Standards and Organizations

General Indices
International and National Standards Organizations
Internet Organizations
Selected IETF Working Groups
Standards Miscellany

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GENERAL INDICES

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Standards.

There are numerous FAQs about standards such as MPEG, PPP, ISDN, etc. here.

URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/

Standards for Digital Information Interchange. A Resources Page.

Arts and Humanities Data Service.

URL: http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/standards.html

Standards Documentation.

This list contains links to the most useful computer and communication related standards information on the Internet. An extremely good starting point maintained by the Advanced Telecommunications Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

URL: http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/standards.html

Standards List.

John December.

URL: http://www.december.com/net/tools/

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS

American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

URL: http://www.ansi.org

Association for Information and Image Management International (AIIM).

URL: http://www.aiim.org/

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). SIGCOMM.

SIGCOMM is a professional forum for the discussion of issues in the field of data communications and computer networks. Current emphases are on the architectures, protocols, design, analysis, measurement, maintenance, regulatory policy, standards, applications, and social impact of computer networks and computer communications systems.

URL: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/

Audio Engineering Society (AES).

URL: http://www.aes.org/

Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee (BISAC).

URL: http://www.bisg.org/

Book Industry Communication.

URL: http://www.bic.org.uk/

DISC: Delivering Information Solutions to Customers.

Part of British Standards Institution responsible for standardization in Information and Communications Technologies.

URL: http://www.bsi.org.uk/disc/

Data Interchange Standards Association.

URL: http://www.disa.org/

EDItEUR - Pan-European Book Sector EDI Group.

URL: http://www.editeur.org/

European Committee for Standardisation (CEN).

URL: http://www.cenorm.be/default.htm

Graphic Communications Association (GCA)

URL: http://www.gca.org/

IEEE Computer Society.

"The IEEE Computer Society is a world renowned source of information relating to all aspects of computer science and engineering, including the publication of periodicals and newsletters, sponsoring conferences workshops and symposiums, the development of standards. Computer Society On-Line now brings an electronic source of this information and in many cases before being published in hard copy."

URL: http://www.ieee.org/

FTP URL: ftp://stdsbbs.ieee.org /

Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP).

URL: http://web.ansi.org/public/iisp/

International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

URL (English): http://www.iso.ch/

URL (French): http://www.iso.ch/indexf.html

Standards and Standardization Bodies - ISO WWW Virtual Library.

URL: http://www.iso.ch/VL/Standards.html

ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.

URL: http://www.iso.ch/9000e/9k14ke.htm

SC9 is the ISO TC 46 Subcommittee (SC)

Develops and maintains ISO standards on the presentation, identification and description of documents. The site also includes extensive excerpts from ISO's Draft International Standard (ISO/DIS 690-2) on bibliographic references to electronic documents.

URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/index.htm

National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS).

URL: http://www.x3.org/

National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

URL: http://www.niso.org/

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology was established by Congress "to assist industry in the development of technology ... needed to improve product quality, to modernize manufacturing processes, to ensure product reliability ... and to facilitate rapid commercialization ... of products based on new scientific discoveries."

URL: http://www.nist.gov/

Networked Multimedia Information Services (NMIS).

Develops new multimedia programming and services for access and delivery nationwide via the Internet and emerging National Information Infrastructure and, conduct research on multimedia programming, services, and infrastructure technologies, and on standards and policies affecting their development.

URL: http://www.nmis.org/

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

URL: http://www.smpte.org/

U.S. Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC).

URL: http://www.bisg.org/basic.html

World Wide Web Consortium (W3).

URL: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

X Consortium.

The primary purpose of the Consortium is to develop, evolve and maintain the X Window System, a vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral, network-transparent windowing and user interface standard, and to perform other related research and experimentation in, and implementation of, open systems standards and technology. The X Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit company.

URL: http://www.x.org/

INTERNET ORGANIZATIONS

IETF Home Page.

URL: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/

Crocker, D. Making Standards the IETF Way.

URL: http://info.isoc.org:80/papers/standards/crocker-on-standards.html

Internet Society.

URL: http://info.isoc.org/

Internic - Internet Networking Information Center.

URL: http://www.internic.net/

Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

URL: http://www.iab.org/iab/

Description of IETF and IESG.

URL: http://www.ietf.org/overview.html

Summary of Working Groups.

URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html

SELECTED IETF WORKING GROUPS

Access, Searching and Indexing of Directories (asid).

URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/asid-charter.html

Archive URL: ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ietf-asid/

Common Indexing Protocol (find) .

URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/find-charter.html

Archive URL: ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/mailing-lists/find.archive/

Electronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration (ediint).

URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ediint-charter.html

Integrated Directory Services (ids).

URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ids-charter.html

Archive URL: ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/ietf-ids/archive

Integration of Internet Information Resources (iiir).

URL: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/94dec/charters/iiir-charter.html

Responsible Use of the Network (run).

URL: ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/ietf-run/

Site Security Handbook (ssh).

URL: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ssh-charter.html

Archive URL: http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/resource/ietf/ssh/

Universal Resource Identifiers (uri).

URL: ftp://archive.cc.mcgill.ca/pub/mailing-lists/

STANDARDS MISCELLANY

[EDI] Electronic Data Interchange.

URL: http://www.harbinger.net/resource/

[EDI] U.S. Federal EDI Page.

URL: http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/dartg/edi/fededi.html

[GILS] Government Information Locator Service.

URL: http://www.gils.net/

[HTML/SMGL] SGML and the Web.

URL: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/

[HTML/SMGL] SGML/HTML Resource Centre.

URL: http://www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/sgml.html

[MARC] Bibliographic formats and standards. (OCLC).

URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/bib/about.htm

[MARC] Machine-readable cataloging (MARC).

URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/

[MARC] Library of Congress MARC Office.

URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marc.html

[MARC] USMARC formats and documentation.

URL: gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/services/usmarc

[USER INTERFACE] Human-Computer Interaction Resources.

Links to HCI-related resources on Internet: Resource collections, lab projects, thesis in progress, bibliographies, guidelines, standards, organizations, newsgroups, etc.

URL: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/aslab/groups/um/hci/

[VRML] Virtual Reality Modeling Language Technical Forum.

URL: http://www.vrml.org/www-vrml/vrml.tech/

[VRML] Virtual Reality Modeling Language Repository.

URL: http://www.sdsc.edu/vrml/

[Z3950] Z39.50 Maintenance Agency.

URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/