Certainly, the internet has revolutionized the way we work, and has been a tremendous boom for research as well as commerce. The Standards community has a very active and strong presence on the net, but locating the relevant information is sometimes more difficult than looking for a needle in the proverbial haystack. This article presents some links that allow one to start in the right direction. All links are presented in the appendix for easy use. A great hurdle for many people is the lack of knowledge about the intricacies of the web, making them reluctant to explore this wonderful medium.
Directories are a database of stored information about web sites.
Only sites registered on the directory can be located. A large number of standards resources are available on the net. Finding them on the net is likely to be a time consuming affair. The appendix lists a few of these sites to make it easier to get started. This list is not comprehensive, but should be enough to begin.