Standards stuff

Rather miscellaneous stuff to do with standards, which doesn't easily fit anywhere else:

ISO

Publicly available standards

It seems to contain OSI, CGM, Common Criteria, and TRs. Some of these are probably publically available because their development was based on US gov funding or because one can argue convincingly that the cost of the documents has so far very significantly hindered wide-spread adoption. There are also a couple of 1-page standards that essentially only endorse other industry standards (machine-readbale passport, etc.). The list seems not complete though. Some SGML related standards (e.g., DSSSL) as well as the Ada95 standard are also available freely but not listed here for instance.[Markus Kuhn in comp.text.sgml, 10 Feb 2001]

Standards for SGML and machine languages are elsewhere.

SI

US NIST Units pages (including a (startling!) mention of the definition of the prefixes for binary multiples, including the kibibit). The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) is the international authority on units. The SI brochure is available as a PDF file in French (normative) or English (informational). Some etymology

Internet standards

RFC collections

ISO paper sizes

Rational paper.

General

On Julius Caesar, Queen Eanfleda, and the lessons from time past, and other articles by one Brian Meek at KCL.

The fable of the keys

about the (non-) superiority of the Dvorak keyboard. This is part of a larger collection of papers on network effects.

ISO 8601: standard date and time representation.

Pages from Markus Kuhn, Jukka Korpela.