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Trade Associations & Standards Organizations:

As a benefit to our BuildOrBuy Members, Technologies are listed first as they relate to a specific Trade Association or Organization, then the actual Trade Associations are listed last, alphabetically, more or less.

1. InfoWorld.com:  Taking a balanced look at standards - Above the Noise "...Only four standards bodies are sanctioned by governmental agencies that have the force of law... Everybody else is just a shade of gray" 1/7/03.
   1. InfoWorld.com:  Special Report Disruptive Technologies 1/7/03.

The ATA "Big Drive" / Fast Drive interface initiative from Maxtor & Promise Technology: 

• Technical Committee T13 - (ANSI NCITS T13 ) AT Attachment, (ATA) Storage Interface - A new ATA standard, ATA/ATAPI-6... ATA/ATAPI-7

  • Maxtor, IBM & Silicon Image's CMD Storage Division
• InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards 

Mt. Rainier compliant CD-MRW: 

• www.sec.gov - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Home Page) - This link is for further Corporation Research: Investors and Security Holders read copies of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus or see individual Corporate Investors Relations. Knowledge Is Power Only When Acted Upon!

Trade Associations & Technologies:

1. 1394 - FireWire - iLink

   1. 1394 Trade Association

   2. 1394 Trade Association - Consumer Portal

   3. askfor1394.com 

   4. 1394/FireWireWorld.com

   5. 1394 FireStation 

   6. 1394 LA

   7. IEEE P1394B (Gigabit 1394)

    

2. www.AAFassociation.org: Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association

3. ABPM: Association of Briefing Program Managers

4. ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

5. ACRsig.org - ACR - Advanced Communications Riser MB Slots - Site Gone! (2/3/2003).

6. ADA Associations

7. Advanced TV Enhancement Forum

8. AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port - Implementors Forum Welcomes You !

9. Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP): Formed to fight attempts to force the government to design and mandate technology solutions to digital piracy; Oppose Technology Mandates and support the protection of digital content.

10. ANSI Online: American National Standards Institute

11. Anti-DMCA Website:

12. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers - ASCAP

13. American Association of Disabled Persons Web site

14. American Music Conference:

15. American Society for Industrial Security International

16. ASI SIG Home: Advanced Switching Interconnect SIG - Advanced Switching (AS) based on PCI Express architecture.

17. Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)

18. Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP):

19. ATA-ATAPI.COM -- ATA ATAPI IDE EIDE SCSI 1394 -- by Hale Landis

20. Bluetooth: The Official Bluetooth SIG Wireless!
    1. Bluetooth Specification - Ver 1.0 published Q2 1999. Ver 2.0 to be released 2000 or 2001. The PDF docs are divided into 2 parts: Vol. 1 - Core; Vol 2 - Profiles
    2. Bluetooth Developers Conference

21. BICSI A Telecommunications Association - www.bicsi.org

22. BMI.com - Broadcast Music, Inc.

23. Broadcast.Net - The Broadcast Industry's Home Page

24. BSA (Business Software Alliance) Global Home Page

25. CABA - (The Continental Automated Buildings Association) North America's key source for information, education, and networking relating to Home & Building Automation.

26. CableLabs Home: Revolutionizing Cable Technology!

    "A nonprofit research and development consortium that is dedicated to pursuing new cable telecommunications technologies and to helping its cable operator members integrate those technical advancements into their business objectives."

27. CalCableNow: California Cable & Telecommunications Association

28. CAUCE: The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email

29. CDs 21 Solutions:

    1. Welcome to Orange Forum Web Site: The information on Disc ID Method has been transferred to CDs21 Solutions Web site.

30. CE.org, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)

31. www.cedia.net:  CEDIA Home Theater Home Networking Home Automation Audio Video Connected Home Automation (7/30/2002).

32. CMG - Computer Measurement Group: Storage Performance Council (SPC)

33. CMMA: Communications Media Management Association

34. CompactFlash Association

35. CompTIA - Computing Technology Industry Association

36. computermusic.org:  International Computer Music Association

37. The Computer Security Institute:

38. CPTWG Home Page: Copy Protection Technical Working Group (Added 2/6/2002).

39. CTIA - WOW-COM: World of Wireless Communications - CTIA

40. Design Guidelines for PCs (Microsoft.com)

    1. www.PCDesGuide.org: PC Design Guides - Online... For now! (1/6/03)

    2. www.pcdesguide.com - Off-line MOST of the Time! Directs Users to:

    3. www.HWDEV.org which is also Off-Line ALL of the time! (12/20/2002)

    All 3 owned by Microsoft. Microsoft - Your people ever heard of Domain Redirects?

     

41. Desktop Form Factors - ATX Specifications

42. Digital Transmission Content Protection (5C) - DTLA HOME PAGE

43. DMTF - The Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.

44. DoShelp: Intrusion Prevention and Reporting Services

45. DVD Audio Preview:

46. DVD Copy Control Association: And the Content Scramble System (CSS).

47. DVD Forum: DVD Formats -  DVD Primer

48. DVD+RW - DVDplusRW.org - The ultimate unofficial DVD+RW & DVD+R resource site (7/3/2002).

49. DVDRW.com Alliance:

50. ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers Association, Geneva, Switzerland - Standardizing Information and Communication Systems

51. EIA Environment Consumer Education Initiative (CEI):
52. Electronic Industries Association - EIA: Electronic Industries Alliance
53. Electrostatic Discharge Association: ESD
54. www.EnhancedBackup.com: EBSI (Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative) -  A New Spin on Data Protection. See: Storage Configurator & Storage 101
55. Fabless Semiconductor Association
56. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
57. Fibre Channel Industry Association
58. www.fispa.org: Federation OF Internet Solution Providers Of The Americas
59. Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.): The first organization to focus on the advancement of interactive audio.
60. Grid Computing Info Centre GRIDInfoware
61. HAVi - Home Audio - Video Interoperability
62. HD-DVD One Format Only! - Official Site
    1. As of September 5th, 2002, there are no less than FOUR candidate specifications that have been proposed to the DVD Forum for high-definition DVD (HD-DVD). (1/11/03)
63. HighM.A.T. - High-Performance Media Access Technology! (Press Release, 10/18/2002)
64. HIPPA - National HIPAA Alliance: The NHA is a not for profit organization designed to provide health care professionals easy access to relevant information and products concerning the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 - HIPAA.
    1. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
65. www.HomePlug.org: HomePlug Powerline Alliance
66. HyperTransportT Consortium
67. IBC2002 - International Broadcasting Convention - The World's Electronic Media Event
68. (ISC)2 - International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc.
69. IDSA.com:  Interactive Digital Software Association
70. The IEEE
71. www.ieee-isto.org - IEEE-ISTO:
72. INCITS, InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
73. ID3v2: MPEG Layer 3, ID3 Tag (a fix-sized 128-byte tag that would residing @ end of MP3 audio files. Includes title, artist, album, year, genre and a comment field). Version 2 is currently in a state of 'informal standard'.
74. International Engineering Consortium (IEC)
75. www.IETF.org: The Internet Engineering Task Force
76. InfiniBand Trade Association
77. InfoComm.org: The International Communications Industries Association, Inc. (ICIA) The central resource for the AV communications industry!
78. IPv6.org - The Next Generation Internet!
79. www.itaa.org -  Information Technology Association of America
80. www.itic.org -  Information Technology Industry Council
81. www.imaps.org - IMAPS - International Microelectronics And Packaging Society
82. www.iso.ch -  International Organization for Standardization
83. www.itu.int -  International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
84. International Color Consortium: ICC - www.color.org - ICC Profiles
85. www.webcasters.org -  International Webcasting Association
86. www.iw3c2.org -  International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)
87. www.isc.org -  Internet Software Consortium
88. www.ipc.org - IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries: Connecting the Electronics Industry with Ideas, Information & Each Other! (Formerly known as 'Institute of Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits')
89. IP Security Protocol (ipsec) Charter
90. www.isoc.org - Internet Society (ISOC):
91. ISO/IEC - JOINT TECHNICAL COMMITTEE 1
92. ISO - International Organization for Standardization: International Organization for Standardization
93. www.iVDR.org: (Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage) Hard Disk Drive Consortium - Digital Rights Management (DRM) (1/2/03).
94. JEDEC Solid State Technology Association - "The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (Once known as the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council), is the semiconductor engineering standardization body of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), a trade association that represents all areas of the electronics industry."
    1. JEDEX Home Page: JEDEX Conference - A place to understand the future in semiconductor memory.

95. Liberty Alliance Project:

96. Memory Stick Info For Developers

97. MENC: The National Association for Music Education

98. www.midi.org: MIDI Manufacturers Association

99. Calimetrics, Inc. - Alliance: The ML Alliance - ML Technology (Multilevel Modulation optical encoding) for Optical Media Storage

100. mLAN Alliance - A new digital network Yamaha advocates for musical applications.
101. MMA Web Index: Midi Manufacturers Association
102. MOST Cooperation: Media Oriented System Transport (MOST) Standard Specification

     "Media Oriented Systems Transport is a multimedia fiber-optic network optimized for automotive applications. It is a network developed by the automotive industry for the automotive industry. Its design allows it to provide a low-overhead and low-cost interface for the simplest of devices, such as microphones and speakers. At the same time, more intelligent devices can automatically determine the features and functions provided by all other devices on the network and establish sophisticated control mechanisms to take away distractions from the driver of the car as different subsystems try to communicate information to him.

     The features of MOST make it suitable for any application, inside or outside the car that needs to network multimedia information along with data and control functions."

      

103. Mount Rainier - CD-MRW (Philips)
104. MPAA.org - Motion Picture Association
105. MPEG . ORG - MPEG Pointers and Resources
106. MPEG-4 Industry Forum
     1. Internet Streaming Media Aliance
     2. MPEG Industry Information (Telecom Italia Lab)
     3. MPEG Pointers and Resources (MpegTV)
     4. Overview on MPEG-4 Standard (ISO/IEC)
     5. Tuturial on MPEG-4 Standard
     6. MPEG-4 Audio (Fraunhofer USA)
     7. MPEG-4 Licensing (Visual)
     8. MPEG-4 Audio Licensing (Dolby)
107. MMCA Home Page www.mmca.org: MultiMediaCard Association
108. www.narm.com - National Association of Recording Merchandisers
109. National Business Travel Association

110. National Cable & Telecommunications Association

111. National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) - Warnings - 2000 Advisories

112. National Speakers Association

113. National Storage Industry Consortium

114. NRIC - Network Reliability and Interoperability Council

115. NSIF Home Page

116. Organization for Internet Safety: Founded by Microsoft. Read their current "Code Of Conduct".
117. OSDN Open Source Development Network
118. Optical Society of America: Advancing The Science OF Light!^™
119. OSTA - Optical Storage Technology Association
     OSTA MultiAudio Specification
     OSTA Technical Information – Universal Disk Format Specification
120. Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC)
121. PassPort.net - Microsoft .NET Passport One easy way to sign in online.
122. PC Design Guides (Gone?)
     1. Current PC 99 Specs and PC 2001 Plans.
        
     Read before you Build OR Buy!

123. Personal Communications Industry Association - PCIA: Wireless Industry News and Research

124. PCI-SIG - Home: PCI Express Architecture I/O

125. PCMCIA Home Page: PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)

     • PC Card Resource Directory:  PC Card Resource Directory

126. Photo Marketing Association International

127. PIDA: Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association - Optoelectronic Technology

128. Platform Conference - July 16-17, 2002

129. PPA.ORG - Promotional Products Association (SWAG!)

130. Quarter-Inch Cartridge Drive Standards, Inc. (QIC)

131. Welcome to the RAB: RAID Advisory Board

132. RapidIO(tm) Trade Association

133. RFC-Editor Webpage: The Request for Comments (RFCs)

134. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

135. R&E Research and Engineering Council for the Graphic Arts

136. RWPPI: RW Products Promotion Initiative - Promotes DVD-R/RW Format

137. The SANS Institute - Home Page
     1. SANS.org: Global Incident Analysis Center: Special Notice - Contacting Host Owners
     2. SANS Resources - How To Eliminate The Ten Most Critical Internet Security Threats

138. SCSI Trade Association
     All about ASPI - Adaptec SCSI Protocol Interface.

139. Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)
140. Security Industry Association
141. Semiconductor Industry Association

142. Serial / ATA Work Group - The Serial ATA final 1.0 specification was released on August 29, 2001.
     Download it here.

     1. www.serialata.org & www.serialata.com

143. Serial Attached SCSI

144. SFF - Small Form Factor Committee

145. www.sic.org - Shareware Industry Awards Foundation -- Shareware Industry Conference:

146. www.sid.org - Society for Information Display:

147. Smart Battery System Implementers Forum:

148. Smart Card Alliance

149. Smart Card Industry Association

150. SmartMedia Information - SmartMedia Technology Primer
151. SMBus: System Management Bus (SMBus) defined by Intel Corporation in 1995. It is used in personal computers and servers for low-speed system management communications.
152. SNIA - Storage Networking Industry Association:
153. Software & Information Industry Association:
154. Sonify.org - Interactive Audio for the Web & Wireless:
155. The SONET Home Page:
156. SSCS-ISSCC Web Pages: Home of the Solid-State Circuits Society & International Solid-State Circuits Conference
157. SSFDC FORUM - Sega Retro: - Solid State Floppy Disk Card, nicknamed the " SmartMedia^TM ", Flash Memory is a trademark of Toshiba Corp. There are only two manufacturers of SmartMedia, Samsung and Toshiba. All the other cards on the market are rebadged from one of these manufacturers. If you have a card make in Korea it is a Samsung, made in Japan is Toshiba. Both cards are manufactured to SSDFC standards. 
158. SNIA - Storage Networking Industry Association:
159. www.sacd.philips.com:  SACD INTRO MOVIE - SACD uses Direct Stream Digital (DSD) recording.
160. www.sonymusic.com/sacd:  Super Audio Compact Disc - Sony and Philips Electronics are responsible for the creation of the Super Audio CD.
161. T10 Technical Committee: I/O Interfaces, especially SCSI.
162. T13 Technical Committee - AT Attachment - (ATA/ATAPI) Storage Interface Specs including 1394 & Serial ATA.

     Quote, "Technical Committee T13 is responsible for all interface standards relating to the popular AT Attachment (ATA) storage interface utilized as the disk drive interface on most personal and mobile computers today. "

      

163. www.TapeCouncil.org: "An alliance comprised of tape manufacturers, who are the leaders in tape drive, automation, media, software, and services. The Tape Council was launched by nine companies on July 29, 2002..." (2/18/2003)
164. www.TechNet.org - New Politics For A New Economy
     1. TechNet Announces Formation of CEO Cybersecurity Task Force (3/28/2003).
165. Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
166. TIA - Travel Industry Association of America
167. Trusted Computing Forum 2001 Virtual Pressroom (12/27/01).
168. TV Linux Alliance: "...open-standard specifications for the Linux operating systems designed to run on a digital set-top box."
169. Trusted Computing Platform Alliance TCPA (2/8/2002).
170. TWAIN-- Standard for image acquisition devices
171. UCITA Online: Uniform Computer Transaction Act
172. Unicode Home Page - Unicode Consortium
173. Universal Plug and Play Forum! UPnP
174. Intel: Universal Serial Bus 2.0 - Specifications
175. www.USBFlashDrive.org - usb flash drive alliance:
176. Universal Serial Bus
177. USB: Universal Serial Bus Trade Group
178. US Internet Industry Association
179. www.Vesa.org: Develops Open Display and Display Interface Standards.
180. V.90 Modem Standard - Latest V.90 News!
181. www.k56.com -
182. V92 Home Page: Modems - Faster DialUp? ISP Support?
183. w00w00 Security Development (WSD) - Currently the largest non-profit security team in the world!
184. (WCA) Wireless Communications Association International:
185. Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization: Quoting Bill Gates, "Identifying and addressing critical Trustworthy Computing issues..." "WS-I's mission is to enable consistent and reliable interoperability of XML-based Web services across a variety of platforms, applications and programming languages. Among other things, WS-I will create a suite of test tools aimed at addressing errors and unconventional usage in Web services specifications implementations, which in turn will improve interoperability among applications and across platforms." "...Trustworthy Computing really is a journey rather than a destination." Sure.
186. WEVA.com: Wedding & Event Videographers Association International
187. WiMAX Home: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access - "A a nonprofit body set up to certify interoperability of broadband wireless access products based on IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.16 and other wireless specifications." Wireless group bulks up CNET News.com (1/15/2004)
188. WinHEC 2004: Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
189. World Economic Forum Public Site
     1. World Economic Forum Public Site - Global Digital Divide: Transforming Digital Divide into Digital Opportunity!
190. World Organization of Webmasters
191. w o w - c o m World of Wireless Communications
192. www.wtec.org:  World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc. (WTEC, Inc.)
193. www.xiph.org: Ogg Vorbis 1.0 released! (7/29/2002)