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AIAG - Develops standards for the automotive industry
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ASTM - an international voluntary standards organization that develops and produces technical standards for
CableLabs - pursues new cable telecommunications technologies and their integration
DCML - provides a standard model to describe one or more data center environments
DMTF - Develops standards for distributed desktop, network, enterprise and Internet environment
ECMA - International European association for standardizing information and communication systems
ETSI - produces European telecommunications standards
FreeStandards.org - Accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies through standards.
ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
ISO - International Organization for Standardization
ITU - International Telecommunications Union
JCP - Java Community Process
JXTA - Combination P2P open standards with Java open source implementation.
LibertyAlliance - Liberty Alliance Project
OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems
ODMG - Object Data Management Group
OGC - international consortium for geospatial and location based services standards
OMA - Creates open standards and specifications for interoperable mobile services.
OMG - Object Management Group
OpenGroup - an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium
OSGi - Open Services Gateway Initiative
RosettaNet - Open e-business process standards
RTCA - Develops recommendations for communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic issues.
TCG - Industry standards group to help create specs for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security te
UDDI.org - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
VoiceXML - an industry organization formed to create and promote the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization
 

 
News
July 2008
Opera joins the Open IPTV Forum
Opera will team up with other members to help create an end-user mass market for IPTV by developing specifications
- streamingmedia.com, July 28, 2008
EU antitrust chief says in favor of open standards
The EU antitrust chief said governments and businesses should favor open standards over closed technology as a blunt criticism of Microsoft's practice.
- portalino.it, July 26, 2008
Dispute about Europe-wide definition of open standards
A dispute has been sparked in Brussels about the definition of open standards to promote the interoperability between eGovernment services.
- heise online, July 7, 2008
Adobe's PDF Format Now An International Standard
The International Organization for Standardization will assume responsibility for publishing specs for the current version, and for updating and developing future versions.
- InformationWeek, July 3, 2008
June 2008
Confronting the future of Web standards
As technology consumers, we accept that the Web is built on open standards. We are told that an entire standards body, the W3C, exists to maintain them. Dig a little further, however, and we find that the history and the issues behind the standards are far more complex than they appear to be.
- InfoWorld, June 12, 2008
EC pledges to promote open standards
The European Commission has pledged to support open standards and promote interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in of European governments to any one technology.
- ZD Net, June 11, 2008
E.U. Snubs Microsoft on Office Systems
Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes of the European Union delivered an unusually blunt snub to Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on open standards.
- nytimes.com, June 11, 2008
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"A steadfast commitment to open standards is essential to unlocking the value of Web services."
- Charles Rozwat, executive vice president of Oracle's server technologies division.
From: Rivals Create 'Bizarre' Web Services Standards Alliance (NewsFactor Network)
 

 
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