SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Standardization, Standards, and Specifications

Standardization:

• Linux Standard Base (with some great editorials on the subject)  LSB specification
• A Linux Standardization Effort
• Linux United (about standards)
• The Open Group
• The 86open Project
• Article on Standards  at Computer Bits 1998 nov.

Standards:

• Misc:
  • Standards (non-Linux; very long list at cmpcmm.com)
  • Standards  (non-Linux; list at unicaen.fr)

  • ACPI Spec.  Advanced Configuration & Power Interface Specification;
  • "International Standard Date and Time Notation"; Good. [link broke]
  • Standards for newsreader developers  Long list by the Gnus developer.
  • MIL-STD-498 intro  An informal look at this replacement of the 2167A SW development standard.
• Character sets
• Files:
  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GRAPHICS FILE FORMATS  [precise link broke]
  • Large File Summit (1996 page on proposed large file standards; with links to related info)
  • PNG Specification  Portable Network Graphics.
• Filesystems:
  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS - was FSSTND)
  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (a tarball)
  • Joliet Specification "CD-ROM Recording Spec ISO 9660:1988 "
• Internet:
  • ICP - Internet Cache Protocal  For caching WWW traffic.
  • IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force (has RFCs and many standards development projects)
  • IETF drafts  List by the Gnus developer.
  • Internet RFC/STD/FYI/BCP Archives
  • RFCs (Request For Comment):
    • Request For Comments (canonical web page for RFCs)
    • RFC index at ISI: (FTP dir index >300MB) [link broke]
    • RFC index at InterNIC: (FTP dir index >300MB) [link broke]
    • A History of Internet RFCs
• Software:
  • C Language Standard 
  • C++ Language Draft Standard  From Dec'96.
  • The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2 (at the Open Group)
  • Unix Trademarks and Standards  Links by C.Browne.

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