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 acronyms. 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 information 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

Wi-Fi Alliance Nonprofit international association certifying interoperability of wireless local area network products based on IEEE 802.11 specification. http://www.wi-fi.org/

Industrial Computer Systems Manufacturers of industrial rackmount computer systems using single board computers, passive and active backplanes and peripherals including industrial displays and keyboards. http://www.industrialcomputersystems.com