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 suppo
   http://web.ansi.org/

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/

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