Rather than duplicate many existing and thorough pages on standards, this page serves as a starting point for further exploration, as well as providing some new guides to standards. We don't live in isolation. None of us.
Communicating is one of our primary activities.
Given this tendency of human beings to communicate, it is only natural that so much effort is devoted to link computers and to create new electronic communication channels. But if it is one thing to physically link two computers with a cable, it is another thing to exchange documents, i.e. meaningful information, between two or more computers. On top of the physical link must come a logical link, a common language that both computers can read and write. Graphics Services An annotated bibliography of books and articles on many types of technical standards. Compiled by Larry Reynolds.