Standards

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/

ANSI Standard (X3.64) Control Sequences
For video terminals and peripherals in alphabetic order by mnemonic.
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ansi/

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/

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

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/_smartsite/modules/local/data_file/show_file.php?cmd=standards&cat=103

IEEE
Acronyms, buzzwords, and commonly asked questions about Standards.
http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/buzzwords.html

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/

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

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/