More background is given on the EU Commision's web site . They host the National Standard System Network which lists up to 100,000 global standards abstracts. Another important source of standards is The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers . ISO on-line has recently been launched and you can tap it on internet via World Wide Web. They also include a list of Standardisation Bodies which is very useful.
All material is in English or French.
Included is a full catalogue of ISO standards and drafts, Meetings Calendar of the ISO Committee, Forum Service and details on how to get your hands on the actual standards themselves. A page mentioned to us by Greg Goagtes, Moderator of the ISO25 Discussion Group, is the ISO25 home page. They also have addresses in the USA and Japan. The UK National Physical Laboratory Standards in Ireland are under the aegis of NSAI - National Standards Authority of Ireland . An area of increasing emphasis is quality control and you'd be hard put to better the resources available on the Quality Org Homepage for a comprehensive indexing and linking to pages and resources in this important area.