Organizations

This section provides a brief background on many of the important consortia and standards organizations working on specifications related to Web Services. At one time, software standards needed to be approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The last decade or so, however, has seen the rise in importance of industry consortia developing standard specifications. The reasons for this vary, but industry consortia now play an important role in the creation of standards.

It may seem that with all the consortia and traditional standards bodies, the specification setting may become a competitive process. That does happen, but more often, you find organizations working together. Some examples include:

Organizations described on this site are listed below. You can also navigate among the organizations by using the menu tree at the bottom of each page.

	Consortia Cross-industry consortia Business Process Modeling Initiative (BPMI.org) Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Interest Group Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) electronic business using eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML) Information Technology Research and Standardization Center (INSTAC) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Java Community Process (JCP) Liberty Alliance Project Object Management Group (OMG) Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) The Open Group Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) RosettaNet Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) www.udef.org XBRL International XML/EDI Group Industry consortia ACORD Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) HR-XML Consortium IDEAlliance International Financial eXchange Forum (IFX Forum) International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) Meat & Poultry Data Standards Organization (mpXML) Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Open Financial Exchange (OFX) Consortium The OpenTravel Alliance (OTA) Parlay Group PSLX Consortium Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) Research Information eXchange Markup Language (RIXML).org Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) SWIFT
	Individual contributing organizations Academia Sinica Computing Centre (ASCC) BEA (acquired by Oracle) Chemistry Industry Data eXchange (CIDX) Hewlett-Packard IBM MathWeb.org Microsoft NASA NetSuite The OpenMath Society OpenWDDX.org Thai Open Source Software Center WSUI Working Group www.xml-cml.org
	Standards organizations Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 ECMA Health Level Seven (HL7) InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)

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