Standards

Standards Organizations

• ITU - International Telecommunication Union
• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
• ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Standards Documents

• Packetizer Open Community Specifications
• IETF RFCs
• ITU Recommendations
• W3C Technical Reports and Publications
• ETSI Standards

VoIP / Video Conferencing

• H.323
• SIP
• H.248
• H.324
• H.350
• Implementation Notes

Codecs

• Codec links

XML

• XML Information Site
• XML 1.0
• XML 1.1
• XML Schema
• Efficient XML Interchange (EXI)

Security

• FIPS Publications
• AES Crypt
• OpenID
• SHA-1
• Secure Password Generator

Instant Messaging

• Instant Messaging Information Site
• XMPP Standards Foundation
• Jabber.org

ASN.1

• ASN.1 Information Site
• ASN.1 Standards
• ASN.1 Consortium
• Implementation Notes
• PER Implementation Guidelines

Numbering & Addressing

• OIDs
• ENUM
• TRIP

Miscellaneous

• SDL Forum Society
• Understanding OSI
• Standards Writing Guidelines
• RSVP Links
• White Paper on Packet-SS7 by Sunil Mahajan