Bodies related to Internet technology and standards

This list has served its purpose and is no longer maintained. I've left it here only to avoid 404 errors.

This is a "laundry list" of bodies related closely or partially to Internet protocol standards. It tends to avoid pure hardware standards, and pure e-business standards, except when they include communications protocols. Inclusion in or exclusion from this list has no particular significance; it has no formal status. The order is fairly arbitrary.

• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
• ISOC (Internet Society)
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
• OGF (Open Grid Forum) [formerly GGF (Global Grid Forum)]
• Enterprise Grid Alliance (merged into OGF)
• ISO JTC1 (Specific WGs of SC 2, 6, 25, 27, 29, 32, 34)
• ITU-T (various subcommittees)
• In memory of OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
• GSC (Global Standards Collaboration)
• Common Criteria - dead
• ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)
• ECMA International (formerly European Computer Manufacturers Association)
• ICTSB(European ICT Standards Board)
• CEn/ISSS(European IT standards portal)
• INCITS(US "InterNational" Committee for Information Technology Standards)
• ATIS(Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions)
• International Softswitch Consortium
• Web Services Interoperability
• UDDI
• Eclipse
• OASIS
• RosettaNet
• Open Applications Group
• Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium
• P2P WG
• New Productivity Initiative (NPi) (Folded into GGF April 18, 2002)
• DAVIC (Digital Audio Video Council) - dead
• WAP Forum(moved to OM Alliance)
• OpenMobile Alliance(takes over from WAP)
• Parlay
• Open GIS Consortium
• DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting project)
• IEEE
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
• InfiniBand Trade Association
• IP/MPLS Forum (formerly MFA Forum)
• Former MPLS Forum
• Former Frame Relay Forum
• Former ATM Forum
• Metro Ethernet Forum
• IPsphere
• Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum
• Mobile Platform Internet (MPI)
• BlueTooth SIG
• ZigBee Alliance
• United Power Line Council
• Power Line Communications Forum
• Universal Plug and Play
• Salutation
• Home Audio Video Interoperability
• UMTS Forum
• 3GPP
• 3GPP2
• Mobile Wireless Internet Forum
• PCCA(Portable Computer and Communications Association)
• Mobile Management Forum (MMF)
• SyncML
• ODVA, Common Industrial Protocol
• Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C)
• Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC)
• OMA (Open Mobile Alliance)
• Location Inter-operability Forum (LIF)
• Mobile Station Application Execution Environment (MExE)
• Network Processing Forum
• Optical Internetworking Forum
• SNIA - Storage Networking Industry Association
• The Open Group
• OMG (Object Management Group, CORBA)
• Sustainable Computing Consortium
• OSGI(Open Services Gateway Initiative)
• Unicode Consortium
• Java Community Process
• jini
• WinSock Industry Group - dead
• IMC (Internet Mail Consortium)
• IPv6 Forum
• ICSC(Interconnect Software Consortium)
• DAT Collaborative
• Internet Software (DNS BIND)Consortium
• MINC (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium)
• PKI Forum
• Organization for Internet Safety
• The Jericho Forum
• Liberty Alliance
• OATH (Initiative for Open Authentication)
• Information Card Foundation
• Identity Commons
• IMTC (International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium)
• Telemanagement Forum (formerly Network Management Forum)
• Service Availability Forum
• MMCF (MultiMedia Communications Forum) - dead
• MSAF (Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum) - dead
• DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force)
• WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition)
• Printer Working Group(IEEE/ISTO)
• DCML (Data Center Markup Language organization)
• XIWT (Cross-Industry Working Team)

Final update: 2008-07-01. Disclaimer