Open Access Standard Sources

Public Safety Standards of the Republic of India: Made available to the public under the provisions of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act of 1986 and the Right to Information Act of 2005. In order to promote public education and public safety, equal justice for all, a better informed citizenry, the rule of law, world trade and world peace, this legal document is hereby made available on a non-commercial basis, as it is the right of all humans to know and speak the laws that govern them. It Covers various subjects like Chemical, Civil Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology, Electrotechnical, Food and Agriculture, Management and Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning, Metallurgical Engineering, Petroleum, Coal and Related Products, Textiles, Transport, Engineering, Water Resources, Indian Roads Congress, Automotive Industry Standards.

European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) International open standards: ECMA standards accessible in various categories i.e Environmental, Acoustical Emissions, Safety, EMC and EMF, Software Engineering and Interfaces, Data Presentation, Data Communication, Data Interchange and Archiving by Physical Media, Access Systems and Interconnection, Wireless Proximity systems, Multimedia and Document Architecture.

OASIS Open standards: One of the most respected, non-profit standards bodies in the world, OASIS Open offers projects—including open source projects—a path to standardization and de jure approval for reference in international policy and procurement.

Some of the most widely adopted OASIS Standards include AMQP, CAP, CMIS, DITA, DocBook, KMIP, MQTT, OpenC2, OpenDocument, PKCS, SAML, STIX, TAXII, TOSCA, UBL, and XLIFF. Many of these have gone on to be published as ISO, IEC, or ITU standards. New work is encouraged, and all are welcome to participate.

Open Geospatial Consortium : The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. OGC's member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available, open geospatial standards. Existing at the cutting edge, OGC actively analyzes and anticipates emerging tech trends, and runs an agile, collaborative Research and Development (R&D) lab - the OGC Innovation Program - that builds and tests innovative prototype solutions to members' use cases.

OpenStandards.net: OpenStandards.net is a not-for-profit organization created to connect people to open standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth, integrating the various resources within the IT industry committed to increasing the synergy of international IT collaboration.