Standards organizations (broadly) that are involved in producing specifications related to markup.
ISO is an independent, non-governmental international organization. It brings global experts together to agree on the best ways of doing things. From quality management to AI, our mission is to make lives easier, safer and better – for everyone, everywhere.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premier standards development organization (SDO) for the Internet. The IETF makes voluntary standards that are often adopted by Internet users, network operators, and equipment vendors, and it thus helps shape the trajectory of the development of the Internet. But in no way does the IETF control, or even patrol, the Internet.
Founded in 1939, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is an industry-based, nonprofit, non-governmental association. NISO is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to identify, develop, maintain, and publish voluntary, consensus-based standards for managing information.
OASIS Open is where individuals, organizations, and governments come together to solve some of the world’s biggest technical challenges through the development of open code and open standards.
What began in 1988 as a standard for character encoding has grown into a powerful portfolio of open source standards, code, tools, libraries, and products that ensure global language support, interoperability, and resiliency across billions of devices.
Behind what most take for granted on screens today is the Unicode Consortium, the non- profit open source, open standards body for the internationalization of software and services. Unicode is embedded in every major operating system and used on more than 20 billion devices worldwide. It may be the most widely deployed technology ever.
The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving the web through standards and tests.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.