• Accredited Standards Committee X3 Participates in the development of international (ISO) and national (ANSI) standards.

• Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) Providing guidelines and standards in certification, e-commerce, customer services, and workforce development.

• 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.

• Distributed Management Task Force Develops and promotes management standards for distributed desktop, network, enterprise and Internet environments.

• Ethiopian Computer Standards Association ECoSA's purpose is to formulate and compose standards drawn from proposal from the industry and lobby them with the Ethiopian Authority for Standardization.

• European Telecommunications Standardization Institute (ETSI) Nonprofit organization with mission to produce future telecommunications standards throughout Europe and beyond.

• International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium Industry consortia of companies worldwide who support "Standards-First" teleconferencing based on open ITU standards.

• Internet Rights Forum Resources, working groups, and forum on all Internet and information technology-related legal issues, including regulation, trademark protection, intellectual property rights, copyright, and electronic signature.

• National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is the federal technology agency that works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards.

• OpenContent Facilitating the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content.

• Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Dedicated to accelerating the adoption of product-independent formats based on public standards, including SGML, XML, HTML, and CGM, as well as others related to structured information processing.

• PASC The people who brought you POSIX and related standards.

• Request for Comments (RFC) Editor

• RosettaNet A consortium of computer makers, resellers, and users creating e-commerce standards for transaction-centered data exchanges using a standardized set of terms for product, partner, and transaction properties.

• TWAIN Working Group Represents the imaging inudstry and provides a standard for linking applications and image acquisition devices.

• Unicode Worldwide Character Standard The home page for the Unicode character set standard, and the Unicode Consortium.