Promotes and develops the DVD Format, its technical capabilities, improvements, and innovations The DVD Forum develops a single format for each DVD application product, including revisions, improvements, and enhancements for...
...the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics....
Promotes DAB Digital Radio. The World DAB Forum promotes, develops and co-ordinates the implementation of DAB Digital Radio services based on the Eureka 147 DAB system. DAB creates multipath reception...
Develops and promotes powerline networks and products. Founded in 2000, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. creates specifications and certification logo programs for using the powerlines for home networking and Smart...
...affecting the camera and imaging products industry, such as environmental issues, inadequate compatibility or interoperability between products, and maintenance of fair market competition; it also promotes research and information exchange....
Develops healthcare standards. Health Level Seven (HL7) is an ANSI-accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDO) that produces standards in the domain of clinical and administrative data. Its mission is to provide...
Promotes the adoption of e-Commerce in the healthcare industry (U.S.). The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) supports users of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in public and private healthcare. WEDI...
Develops standards for the insurance industry The Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) is an insurance association that promotes the development and use of standards for the insurance,...
Develops, promotes and maintains electronic commerce standards for the mortgage industry. Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) coordinates the development and maintenance of Internet-based Extensible Markup Language (XML) real estate...
Promotes the InfiniBand architecture. The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) works with data center implementations, specifically the InfiniBand Architecture. The IBTA draws on existing technologies to create an I/O architecture to...