Alphabetical List
| | | 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance | Promotes the introduction of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet into the networking market| 100VG-Anylan Forum | Promotes the
100VG-AnyLan, IEEE 802.12 standard | 1394 High Performance Serial Bus Trade Association | Promotes adoption of the IEEE 1394 Serial Bus standard | 3GAmericas | Americas-based
organization that seeks to integrate the five major wireless technologies, and support their Third Generation migration| Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) | Creates enterprise content standards | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Forum (DSL Forum) | Promotes DSL broadband adoption | Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCD Forum) | Promotes adoption of broadband networks | Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I) | Sponsors programs for and promotes manufacturing companies| Content Alliance | Fosters interoperability
of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) | Data Center Markup Language Organization (DCML) | Promotes and maintains the DCML specification| Desktop Linux Consortium | Promotes the GNU/Linux operating system for desktop use | Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) | Develops
standards for the digital television and data services industry| Electronic Business XML Initiative (ebXML) | Provides standards for an open XML-based infrastructure for business purposes| Embedded Linux Consortium | Establishes, advances, and promotes Linux standards | Ethernet User Alliance | Promotes the Ethernet Standard| European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) | Represents European banking and credit sector| European Telecommunications Informatics Services (ETIS) | Provides a forum for telecommunications industry operators, suppliers and content suppliers| European Telecommunications Platform (ETP) | Represents the European Telecommunications industry in the European regulatory framework| Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) | Develops and promotes networking standards and infrastructure | Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) | Sponsors open-standard technologies in the financial services industry| Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) | Develops software standards for physical agents and agent-based systems| Global Grid Forum (GGF) | Promotes global standardization
of grid computing| Global Organization for Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol (GO-MVIP) | Promotes the MVIP standard for the computer telephony field| Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) | Supports
ready access to geographic information| GlobalPlatform, Inc. | Creates and
promotes infrastructure standards for multiple application SmartCards| Globus Alliance, The | Produces open source software in the areas of science and engineering.| HAVi | Promotes a network architecture for Home
Audio Video Interoperability| HiperLAN2 Global Forum (H2GF)
| Supports the
ETSI HiperLan2 wireless standard
| HomeRF Working Group | Maintains
a wireless network standard optimized for homes and small businesses| IDB Forum | Promotes integration of IDB
networking | IEEE Computer Society (IEEECS) | Provides
technical information and services to computing professionals| InfiniBand Trade Association (ITA) | Promotes the InfiniBand
architecture| InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) | Develops and promotes Information and Communications Technologies standardization| International Forum on ANSI41 Standards Technology (IFAST) | Addresses international interoperability issues between cellular systems and providers| International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC) | Promotes packet-based network technologies and markets| Internet 2 | Develops Internet network
applications and technologies| Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
| Promotes and facilitates improvements in Internet architecture| Internet Society, The (ISOC) | Promotes and
supports Internet infrastructure and Internet-related activities| Internet Software Consortium (ISC) | Develops and
maintains Open Source reference implementations of core Internet protocols| Interoperability Clearinghouse | Promotes mechanisms for assuring the successful implementation of enterprise technology solutions| ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) | Develops telecommunications standards | Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) | Promotes Ethernet technology
| Mobile Electronic Transactions Limited (MeT) | Maintains a framework for secure mobile transactions independent of device, service and network | Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance (MIPI) | Defines and promotes open specifications for interfaces to mobile application processors.| Multimedia Communications Forum (MMCF) | Supports
multimedia communications architectures and solutions | Multimedia Mobile Access Communications Systems Promotion Council (MMAC-PC) | Seeks to enable high-speed wireless multimedia | Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) | Develops and
promotes open-architecture, multi-service switching systems| National Cyber Security Partnership (NCSP) | Develops
security strategies for US information infrastructure| National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) | Provides leadership for the global electronics manufacturing supply chain| National Industrial Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium | Sets "virtual enterprise" standards for multi-vendor government contract fulfillment and other purposes | National Information Standards Organization (NISO) | Identifies, develops, maintains and publishes technical standards| Object Management Group (OMG) | Sets Object Oriented
Programming Standards | OLAP Council Ltd. (OLAP) | Develops on-line
analytical processing standards | Open Applications Group | Develops
best practices and processes based on XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration| Open Card Consortium | Maintains the
OpenCard Framework, enabling the development of inter-operable smart card solutions across hardware and software platforms| Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) | Develops geo
information systems standards | Open Group (TOG) | Seeks to deliver greater business
efficiency through information technology. Also operates certification programs for the UNIX standard and software and standards
| OSGi Alliance | Develops open specifications for
the delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices
| Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) Forum | Promotes
public Key Infrastructure and PKI-based Products and Services| PXI Systems Alliance | Maintains the
PXI Specification, which permits the Application of PC Technology to Measurement and Automation| RapidIO Trade Association | Supports and promotes the RapidIO Interconnect Architecture for high-performance packet-switched, interconnect technology
| Remote Direct Memory Access Consortium (RDMA) | Develops specifications for remote direct memory access over TCP/IP| Salutation Consortium | Promotes
interoperability standards among devices, applications and services across paper management, telephony and computing domains
| Scope Alliance (SCOPE) | Promotes the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications| Speech Applications Language Tags Forum (SALT Forum) | Develops standards to enable multimodal and telephonic access to diverse data and services | Strategic Sourcing Advisory Council (SSAC)
| Provides information regarding strategic sourcing standards, certification and knowledge-sharing | T-Engine Forum | Develops, researches and promotes
the T-Engine architecture| Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C) | Defines a common software architecture for telecommunications| UniForum - The International Association of Open Systems Professionals | Promotes and exchanges best practices information of open technologies and standards | UnitedLinux | Creates a
Standards-based Version of Linux intended for Business Users| Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) | Facilitates the use and integration of information technologies to improve urban and regional environments| VFEA International Trade Association (VITA) | VMEBus Standard Setting and Trade Association | Voice eXtensible Markup Language Forum (VXML Forum) | Promotes the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML)
| VXIbus Consortium | | Maintains VXIbus
Standard
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