STANDARDS and CROSS REFERENCE PAGES
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1. ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) information:
   • ADSL Forum
   • Dan Kegel's page, Mostly historical (last supported 1996).
2. ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
3. Application Binary Interface Standard, ABI+ Group for Intel Architecture.
4. Arial Software, Online marketing and Web traffic management software.
5. ASN.1 Resources, Info & docs for Abstract Syntax Notation One.
6. ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) information:
   • ATM Chips, Product and Vendor List
   • ATM Forum, Organization to promote and develop ATM technology.
   • ATM Information, from the "Cell Relay Retreat" at University of Indiana.
   • ATM information, from the High Speed Interconnect project at Cern.
   • Comparing ATM and Frame Relay, from the Frame Relay Forum.
7. C3D biomechanics file format (Joint 3D position and analog data)
8. Catalogs and Standards Information (ANSI, ISO and IEC - searchable)
9. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), International space agencies data exchange standardization.
10. CORBA information:
    • DNP Protocol, Distributed Network Protocol, control protocol.
    • DNS Resources Directory, Information on the Internet Domain Name System from The Internet Solution.
    • DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI), Specification.
    • ECDIS information:
    • Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3), Guidelines and index.
    • EPP and ECP (IEEE 1284), Parallel Port Standard.
    • Ethernet information:
      • Ethernet, Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page.
    • European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Organization for technical interoperability.
    • FCS (Fibre Channel Standard) information:
      • FCS Overview, from the High Speed Interconnect project at Cern.
      • Fibre Channel Association, The, Industry association promoting Fibre Channel.
      • Symbois.
      • IP Over Fibre Channel BOF (FIBREIP), from the July '94 IETF.
    • FDDI information:
    • Frame Relay information:
      • Comparing Frame Relay and ATM, from the Frame Relay Forum.
      • Frame Relay overview, from Intel Network Systems.
      • Frame Relay Tutorial, from Alliance Datacom.
    • HIPPI information:
      • HIPPI Bibliography, from Cray Research.
    • HTML information:
      • HTML 3.0: Fact or Fiction?, from O'Reilly.
      • HTML Beginner's Guide, from NCSA.
      • HTML information, from the W3 Consortium.
    • HTTP information, from the W3 Consortium.
    • I2O, Device independent input/output device interface standard.
    • IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), Electrical and electronic engineering standards body, Geneva.
    • IEEE 1394 (Firewire) information:
      • IEEE 1394 - COMPCON overview from Skipstone
      • IEEE 1394 Serial Bus (Firewire) Trade Association
      • IEEE 1394 Specification information
      • IEEE 1394 Technical Overview from Texas Instruments
    • IEEE Standards information (These are not the actual standards themselves but which must be purchased.
    • IMA (Interactive Media Association), RFTs
    • Internet Drafts index, from the IETF.
    • IP Next Generation information:
      • IP Next Generation description, from Sun Microsystems.
      • IPv6 Information Page
    • ISDN information:
      • ISDN information, from Dan Kegel at Cal Tech - Recommended.
      • ISDN information, from Bellcore.
      • ISDN User's Guide, from Pacific Bell.
    • JAVA information:
      • Introduction to Java (By IBM)
      • JAVA, Programming language and environment, from Sun.
    • JavaScript information:
      • JavaScript Resources (examples of JavaScript and DHTML)
    • JPEG, FAQ - Joint Photographic Experts Group image compression standard.
    • Large File Format, standardization effort (64 bit indexes).
    • LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
    • Macintosh information:
      • AusMac, Macintosh software archive.
      • Macinsearch, Index and search engine.
    • MIME information:
      • MIME, Types.
    • MPEG information:
      • MPEG, Pointers and Resources.
    • MPI information:
      • Message Passing Interface (MPI) Standard (Library Specification)
      • MPI Resources, Index from Mississippi State.
    • MPLS Resource Center, The, IETF's Multiprotocol Label Switching Standard.
    • NCITS (formerly X3 Accredited Standards Committee), The ANSI committee on information technology.
    • Network Time Protocol (NTP), from University of Delaware/HP.
    • ODBC information:
      • Open DataBase Connectivity information, from Microsoft.
    • PASC, IEEE's Portable Application Standards Committee, POSIX, etc..
    • PCI information:
      • PCI Bus, Efficient use notes from Intel.
      • PCI Special Interest Group (PCISIG), Industry membership organization promoting PCI.
    • Perl, Perl programming language resource Web site.
    • PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), Public domain public key cryptography, index.
    • Phase Relationships in the Standardization Process (Comments by James Gosling)
    • PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine), Communication package for Unix systems, from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
    • Python, Programming language, interpretative, interactive, object-oriented, extensible.
    • QuickTime, Multimedia architecture for synchronized graphics, sound, video, text and music.
    • RFC, Index and search engine from the IETF.
    • RFC, HTML linked from MIT - searching available.
    • RFC, Repositories - a URL list from Cern. Somewhat dated (10/94) but still useful.
    • RSVP, (IETF Working Group) Internet resource reservation setup protocol.
    • S/390 Parallel Sysplex(tm), High availability system for online transaction processing (OLTP).
    • SC4 On-Line Information Service (SOLIS), ISO TC184/SC4 subcomittee (Industrial/manufacturing).
    • SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) information:
      • Search Yahoo
      • SCI Information, from the High Speed Interconnect project at Cern.
      • SCI Related activity, at the University of Oslo.
      • SCIzzL, SLDRAM (formerly SyncLink) Trade Association, SCI users.
    • SCSI information:
      • Search Yahoo
      • SCSI FAQ, from Ohio State.
      • SCSI, T10 and I/O standard related information, from Symbios Logic.
    • SGML, ftp server.
    • SMDS information:
      • Search Yahoo
    • SMIL information:
      • Information site, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
      • Specification, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
    • SNMP, and network management.
    • SONET information:
      • Search Yahoo
      • SONET Interoperability Forum, Organization to promote SONET deployment.
    • SPICE, Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination, a standard for software process assessment.
    • SQL, Database query language.
    • SS7 (Signaling System 7), Telephone switching protocol overview.
    • STEP information:
      • STEP Project, The, STEP documentation from the US NIST.
      • What is STEP?, Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data.
    • T1, Telecommunications Committee - American National Standards Institute (ANSI) committee.
    • T10 (formerly X3T10), I/O Standards from NCITS (e.g. SCSI and ATA [IDE], SSA).
    • TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) information:
      • Introduction to the Internet Protocols, including TCP.
      • Port Numbers, from USC/ISI and the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority).
      • TCP RFC - RFC793, The original TCP Request For Comments, RFC 793, 9/81.
      • TCP/IP index, from Yahoo.
      • TCP/IP Resources List, Books, Web index, etc..
    • TWAIN, Image acquisition (e.g. scanner) application programming interface (API) standard.
    • TWIRP, Two-Way InfraRed Protocol for remote control interaction.
    • Unicode, Worldwide character encoding standard from the Unicode Consortium.
    • Unified Modeling Language (UML), Language for specifying and documenting software artifacts.
    • Unix information:
      • ACITS Unix Resources, Index and search engine from U. of Texas.
      • Unix Guru Universe, Sysadmin oriented index and search engine.
      • UNIX Reference Desk, Unix index and search engine.
      • UNIX Sysadmin Resources, Index.
    • USB (Universal Serial Bus) information:
      • USB Developers page, Serial peripheral interconnect for PCs.
    • USENET information:
      • ATM, SMDS, and related technologies (comp.dcom.cell-relay FAQ)
      • FAQs, (list from Ohio State).
      • Internet access FAQ
      • Internet Services FAQ
      • LANs FAQ
      • Mpeg FAQ
      • PGP FAQ, Pretty Good Privacy - available Public Key Encryption algorithms.
      • SNMP FAQ
      • TCP/IP over ISDN FAQ, largely in German.
    • VRML information:
      • VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), Repository from UCSD.
    • Windows information:
      • WinFiles.com, Information and resources for the various Windows OSs from Microsoft.
    • X.500 - the OSI Directory Standard
    • X12 Accredited Standards Committee, ANSI electronic data interchange (EDI) body.
    • xDSL (Digital Subscriber Line) information:
      • xDSL News, Digital subscriber line (xDSL) information/news from Telechoice.
    • XML (eXtensible Markup Language) information:
      • Online XML magazine
      • The XML Files from Web Developer
      • W3C information

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