ANSI
A premier source for timely, relevant, actionable information on national, regional, international standards and conformity assessment issues
http://www.ansi.org/
Ecma
Standardization, information and communication technology, consumer electronics, industry association
http://www.ecma-international.org/
Unicode
The unicode consortium and the unicode standard
http://www.unicode.org/
W3C
The world wide web consortium (w3c) is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop web standards. w3c primarily pursues its mission through the creation of web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the web. over 400 organizations are members of the consortium. w3c is jointly run by the mit pc science and artificial intelligence laboratory (mit csail) in the usa, the european research consortium for informatics and mathematics (ercim) headquartered in france, keio university in japan, and has additional offices worldwide.
http://www.w3.org/