Back to CompendiumA comprehensive guide to technical standards, specifications, and the organizations that develop and maintain them.
Technical Standards & Specifications
Standards Organizations
International Organizations
- ISO - International Organization for Standardization
- IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
- ITU - International Telecommunication Union
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Regional & National Organizations
- ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- INCITS - InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
- DIN - German Institute for Standardization
Internet Standards
Core Internet Standards
- IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
- RFC Editor - Request for Comments
- IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Notable RFCs
Web Standards
- HTML - HyperText Markup Language
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- DOM - Document Object Model
- WebAssembly - Binary instruction format
- JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
- YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language
- Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Character & Text Standards
Character Encoding
- Unicode - Universal character encoding
- UTF-8 - Unicode Transformation Format
- ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ISO/IEC 10646 - Universal Coded Character Set
Text Processing
Textile Care Standards
For textile care symbols and their meanings, see the Common Symbols Guide.
Resources
Standards Development