TCP/IP Guide

International Networking Standards Organizations

The rise of open standards has been a great boon to customers of computer and networking products, as well as to the manufacturers that sell to them. In order to facilitate the development of open standards, however, we need organizations that will coordinate the creation and publishing of these documents. Generally, these are nonprofit organizations that specifically take a neutral stance regarding technologies and work for the betterment of the industry as a whole.

Here is a selective list of some of the standards organizations that you are likely to encounter when reading about networking and the Internet:

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Probably the biggest standards organization ...