LINKS OF INTEREST
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- "The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has served in its capacity as administrator and coordinator of the United States private sector voluntary standardization system for more than 80 years. Founded in 1918 by five engineering societies and three government agencies, the Institute remains a private, nonprofit membership organization supported by a diverse constituency of private and public sector organizations."
DISA - Data Interchange Standards Association
- "Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA) – the foremost association for electronic commerce – is a not-for-profit organization that offers a variety of outreach initiatives and extensive educational programs for every e-commerce endeavor."
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
- "The W3C was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability."
- "The mission of the Uniform Code Council is to take a global leadership role in the establishing and promoting multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communication. The goal is to enhance supply chain management thus contributing added value to the customer."
- "The XML/Edi Group began in July 1997 as an ad hoc collection of a few professionals and volunteers in various industries dedicated to promoting and guiding the future of XML standards and products applied to electronic data interchange (EDI). The Group has grown to about 1,700 members focusing on the technology of incorporating XML with e-business particularly for smaller enterprises that have been unable to use EDI until now."
- "UCCnet is an open, standards-based, scaleable, distributed Internet trading community that is industry supported and sponsored. A wholly owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC)."
