Organizations that develop and/or approve recognized industry standards.

• Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 - develops standards – in X12 and XML formats – for cross-industry electronic exchange of business information
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) - not-for-profit organization that provides a global forum for the development and publication of voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical Standards Commitee (TSC) - coordinates all official ACM participation in standards-related activities
• Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) Standards
• Book Industry Study Group (BISG) - non-profit voluntary organization focusing on standards and research related to the book industry, with a forum called Book Industry Standards And Communications (BISAC)
• Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) - composed of space agencies and industrial associates worldwide, working together to provide well-engineered, standardized solutions for common space data handling needs
• Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) - not-for-profit association providing educational and networking forums on electronic commerce, and serving as Secretariat for Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12
• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
• Document Management Alliance (DMA) - organization and specification for software component interfaces that enable uniform search and access to documents stored in multi-vendor document management systems
• ECMA (formerly the European Computer Manufacturers Association) - international, Europe-based industry association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems
• EDiTEUR - international group coordinating development of the standards infrastructure for electronic commerce in the book and serials industries, with the Secretariat housed at the London offices of Book Industry Communication
• Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)
• European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)
• European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
  • European Committee for Standardization, Technical Committee for Health Informatics (TC251)
• European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT)
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) - since 1985, has sponsored the HFES Human Computer Interaction Standards Committee (HFES/HCI)
• Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP) - sponsored by ANSI, IISP is an U.S.-based organization whose mission is to identify standards critical to the implementation of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII)/Global Information Society (GIS)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standards Association
• Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) - ANSI-accredited industry organization representing the interests of quality, safety, and productivity of measurement and control systems and equipment
• International Color Consortium - promotes and encourages the standardization and evolution of an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management system architecture and components
• InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) - mission is to produce market-driven, voluntary consensus standards in the area of Information Technology
• Internet Architecture Board (IAB) - responsible for defining the overall architecture of the Internet, providing guidance and broad direction to the IETF. The IAB also serves as the technology advisory group to ISOC and adjudicates appeals when someone complains that the IESG has failed. Chartered by ISOC.
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) - central coordinator and clearinghouse for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - non-profit corporation that was formed to take over responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.
• Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) - responsible for technical management of IETF activities and the Internet standards process. As part of the ISOC, it administers the process according to the rules and procedures which have been ratified by the ISOC Trustees. The IESG is directly responsible for the actions associated with entry into and movement along the Internet "standards track," including final approval of specifications as Internet Standards. Chartered by ISOC.
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. Actual technical work is carried out through its approximately 115 working groups, largely through their mailing lists. Members of the IETF are individuals, not organizations. The IETF holds meetings three times per year, which are open to the general public.
• Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG)
• Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) - To promote research of importance to the evolution of the future Internet by creating focused, long-term and small Research Groups working on topics related to Internet protocols, applications, architecture and technology. The IRTF is composed of several Research Groups and is managed by the IRTF Chair in consultation with the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG).
• Internet Society (ISOC) - professional membership organization that comments on policies and practices and oversees a number of other boards and task forces dealing with network policy issues.
• Internet Software Consortium
• InterNIC - domain registration
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) - semiconductor engineering standardization body of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), a trade association that represents the electronics industry
• National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium
- team of organizations that has entered into a cooperative development agreement with the U.S. Government to develop open industry software protocols for manufacturers and their suppliers to effectively interoperate as if they were part of the same enterprise
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO) - ANSI-accredite non-profit association, which identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards for libraries, bibliographic and information services, and publishers
• Open Group
• Web Standards Project