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Technology Standards
Technology Standards covers the landscape of formal technical standards, protocols, and normative specifications developed by international standards bodies including IEEE, IETF, W3C, ISO, OASIS, and the Linux Foundation. These standards define how technology systems interoperate, communicate, and behave. In the API economy, key standards govern data formats (JSON, XML, CSV), communication protocols (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, gRPC), security (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, TLS), identity (SAML, SCIM), and API description (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI). Technology standards ensure interoperability, reduce vendor lock-in, and form the foundation of the modern internet and API ecosystem.
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W3C Web Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) leads the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing open standards for web technologies. W3C standards critical to APIs include CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing), Web Authentication (WebAuthn…
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IEEE Standards
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) develops standards for electronics, electrical engineering, and computer science. IEEE standards relevant to APIs and technology include IEEE 802 (networking), IEEE P2510 (IoT da…
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OASIS Open Standards
OASIS Open is a nonprofit standards development organization that advances the creation, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS standards relevant to APIs include SAML (Security Assertion Mark…
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OAuth and OpenID Connect
OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749) is the industry-standard protocol for authorization, enabling third-party applications to obtain limited access to web services. OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0 that enables clients…
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Technology Standards Documents API
Internet-Drafts, RFCs, and document events
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Technology Standards Groups API
Working groups, research groups, and other IETF groups
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Technology Standards IPR API
Intellectual property rights disclosures
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Technology Standards Liaisons API
Liaison statements
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Technology Standards Meetings API
IETF meetings and sessions
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Technology Standards Messages API
Email messages and announcements
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Technology Standards People API
People in the IETF community
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Technology Standards Reference API
Reference and enumeration values
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Technology Standards Reviews API
Document reviews
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Technology Standards Stats API
Statistics resources
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Technology Standards Submissions API
Document submissions
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Providers working in Technology Standards
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first.
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| TCP/IP | TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the foundational communication protocol suite that powers the internet and most computer networks. It provides reliable, ordered delivery of data between applications across diver… | emerging | 1 |
| Internet Engineering Task Force | The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open, global community of network designers, engineers, researchers, and operators that develops and promotes voluntary technical standards to ensure the smooth operation and evolution of th… | thin | 6 |
| W3C | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards body for the World Wide Web, founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994. W3C develops web standards and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the Web, focusing on acces… | thin | 1 |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), also known as Bluetooth Smart, is a wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG). Aimed at IoT and embedded applications, BLE provides r… | emerging | 3 |
| Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) performs the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources. IANA maintains the protocol registries, top-level domain delegations, time zone database… | emerging | 3 |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the foundational internet standard for transmitting electronic mail across networks. Defined in RFC 5321 (October 2008), SMTP uses a command-response model over TCP port 25 (or 587 for submission, 46… | emerging | 2 |
| LDAP | LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an industry-standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an IP network, formally specified in RFC 4511. It plays a critical role… | emerging | 1 |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the foundational IETF standard for monitoring and managing network devices. SNMP defines a request/response protocol over UDP (ports 161 and 162) for retrieving and altering management variables… | emerging | 5 |
| FTP | FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files between a client and a server over a TCP-based network. FTP is a protocol specification rather than a vendor or HTTP API, and is documented primarily in IET… | minimal | 0 |
| HTTP/2 | HTTP/2 is the second major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, defined by the IETF in RFC 7540 and standardized in 2015. It optimizes use of network resources and reduces perceived latency by introducing a binary framing layer over… | minimal | 0 |
| Network Protocols | Network protocols are the standardized rules and conventions for communication between network devices. They include foundational protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, BGP, SMTP, FTP, SSH and many others that enable data exchange acr… | minimal | 0 |
| POSIX | POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) is a family of IEEE and Open Group standards that define a consistent operating system API, command line shell, and utility interfaces for maintaining compatibility between Unix and Unix-like sys… | minimal | 0 |
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