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OpenStandards.net About Organizations Contact Us   Standards Bodies and Consortia 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 FIX - messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages 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 OpenACC - API describing a collection of compiler directives to accelerate application. OpenGroup - an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium OSGi - dynamic module system for Java RosettaNet - Open e-business process standards RTCA - Develops recommendations for communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic issues. SunSpec - defines open data standards for the renewable energy and photovoltaic (PV) industries 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 workforce-xml - standardization of xml integration of devices/apps for the workforce WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization		Organizations Organization Short Name IETF Name Internet Engineering Task Force Type Open Standards Body HTTP URL http://www.ietf.org/ Short Description Description The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. Location Domain International Technical Scope Internet Membership Types Quote: "The IETF is not a membership organization (no cards, no dues, no secret handshakes :-) "The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. "The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups. To become a participant in the IETF, one merely becomes active in one or more working groups by asking to be added to the WG's mailing list." ref: http://www.ietf.org/join.html updated: 2002-May-20 Internal Organizations Whenever possible, a standard may advance through all levels of maturity, becoming an internet standard, through the activities of a Working Group. However, the dispute process permits resolution outside the Working Group when a dispute cannot be setted within, rising successively through these ranks: Area Director (for the Working Group) Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) as a whole Internet Architecture Board (IAB) "The IAB decision is final with respect to the question of whether or not the Internet standards procedures have been followed and with respect to all questions of technical merit." In some cases appeals can go up to the ISOC BoT. ref: RFC 2026 (BCP 9) section 6.5.1 Working Group Disputes (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt) updated: 2002-May-20 External Organizations The IETF recognizes and included references to other standards setting organizations and their published standards and other documentation. The Internet Society (ISOC) is the organanizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). (http://www.isoc.org/) updated: 2002-May-28 Standards Track Maturity Levels Proposed Standard Draft Standard Internet Standard Although Best Current Practice (BCP) documents standardize processes, they too progress through the standards track maturity levels. ref: RFC 2026 (BCP 9) section 4.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt) updated: 2002-May-29 Standards Track View Notes Standards Track Participation Notes Other Tracks Experimental Informational Historic ref: RFC2026 sections 4.2 and 5(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt) updated: 2002-May-29 Standards View Notes All standards are published as Request for Comments (RFC), and are publicly available online. http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html RFCs are available without charge and do not require membership or registration, ensuring the highest degree of accessibility. update: 2002-May-20 Patent Policy General policy: "In all matters of intellectual property rights and procedures, the intention is to benefit the Internet community and the public at large, while respecting the legitimate rights of others." IETF policy requires that effort be made to publicize patent and copyright claims as early in the standards setting process as possible, and that such claims be available on-line. The IETF requires that all submitters accept that their documents will be openly available to the public. "Where the IESG knows of rights, or claimed rights under (A), the IETF Executive Director shall attempt to obtain from the claimant of such rights, a written assurance that upon approval by the IESG of the relevant Internet standards track specification(s), any party will be able to obtain the right to implement, use and distribute the technology or works when implementing, using or distributing technology based upon the specific specification(s) under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms." ref: RFC 2026 section 10 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt) updated: 2002-May-29 Patent Policy Notes In general, the IETF, based on the 1996 publication of RFC 2026, permits Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) access to the intellectual property required to implement a standard. It is the working group's responsibility to decide if technology with IPR claims should be used in an IETF standard. There are no specific rules about it. updated: 2002-May-29

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