OASIS  - http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. OASIS is distinguished by its transparent governance and operating procedures.

Address: Post Office Box 455   City: Billerica   State: Massachusetts

ISOC  - http://www.isoc.org/

The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

Address: 1775 Wiehle Ave., Suite 102   City: Reston   State: Virginia

We Can Put an End to Word Attachments  - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

This directory describes the philosophy of the Free Software Movement, which is the motivation for our development of the free software operating system GNU. Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects--such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline--in that it can be copied and changed much more easily.

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Why There Are Not GIF Files on GNU Pages  - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX-like operating system which is free software. Advocates against the use of image formats that are protected by patents. Presents a brief history of the GIF format as well as its open alternatives.

Address: Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330   City: Boston   State: Massachusetts

UNECE  - http://www.unece.org/

UNECE strives to foster sustainable economic growth among its 55 member countries. To that end UNECE provides a forum for communication among States; brokers international legal instruments addressing trade, transport and the environment; and supplies statistics and economic and environmental analysis.

Address: Palais des Nations , CH - 1211 Geneva 10.   City: Geneva   State: Geneva

Havi  - http://www.havi.org/

Havi builds your bridge to the future. As consumers incrementally build entertainment networks from a basic cluster to a home-wide network. HAVi will make it easier for companies to build and market new application programs by using HAVi's API's or programming in Java.

Address: 40994 Encyclopedia Circle,   City: Fremont   State: California

ATSC  - http://www.atsc.org/

The Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc., is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics and semiconductor industries. ATSC creates and fosters implementation of voluntary Standards and Recommended Practices to advance terrestrial digital television broadcasting, and to facilitate interoperability with other media.

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Sincere Choice  - http://sincerechoice.org/

Intercommunication and file formats should follow standards that are sincerely open for all to implement, without royalty fees or discrimination. They believe that there should be a fair, competitive marlket for computer software, both proprietary and open source.

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Open Data Format Initiative  - http://odfi.org/

Initiative aiming to convince software companies to release data format documentation and to pass laws that governments can only store user data in open format. This site is presents its manifesto, forum, news, links to institutional resolutions. Open Data Format initiative encouraging open data formats.

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Open Standards Repository  - http://openstandards.org/

The Open Standards Repository will be a location that will contain standards relevant to the Open Source community. Standards will include licenses, standards, protocols, RFCs, etc. The OSR will NOT be developing standards (except for its internal purposes). It's concept is faciliate the interchange, maintenance, and tracking of standards developed by the Open Source community as a whole.

Address:    City: Abbeville   State: Alabama