| 1. | W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium | | | The W3C was founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
www.w3.org |
| 2. | NSSN: National Resource for Global Standards | | | NSSN serves as a central point to search for standards information from many sources and serves as an important gateway connecting those who seek standards to those that supply them.
www.nssn.org |
| 4. | IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force | | | The IETF is a large, open, and international community of Internet professionals concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
www.ietf.org |
| 7. | XNS Public Trust Organization | | | The XNS Public Trust Organization works with the Internet community to determine the future direction of the open Extensible Name Service (XNS) protocol. XNS is an open, XML-based protocol for identifying and linking any resource participating in any kind of digital transaction.
www.xns.org |
| 9. | ISOC - Internet Society | | | The ISOC is a professional membership society providing leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards.
www.isoc.org |
| | |