awesome-standards
github.com/donbarbos/awesome-standards ↗A curated list of technical standards, they may be called requests for comments, proposals, drafts, notes, specifications, or something else
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Decentralized Systems
General
- ANSI
Private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
- IEC
International standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology".
- ISO
International standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.
APIs
- Apache Avro
Serialization format for record data, and first choice for streaming data pipelines.
- Apache Thrift
Interface Definition Language and binary communication protocol used for defining and creating services for programming languages.
- API Blueprint Spec
A markdown based language for describing APIs with interactive documentation support.
- API Stylebook
Collections of resources for API Design from other companies guidelines.
- AsyncAPI Spec
This specification allows you to create machine-readable definitions of your asynchronous APIs.
- CloudEvents Spec
A specification for describing event data in a common way.
Related Awesome Lists
- Awesome API Devtools
A collection of useful resources for building RESTful HTTP+JSON APIs.
- Awesome Guidelines
Coding style conventions and standards.
Tools
- Bazel Proposals
Index of all Bazel proposals and design documents.
- CalVer Spec
Calendar Versioning Specification.
- CEPs
Conda Enhancement Proposals.
- Compose Specification
The Compose Specification is developer focused for defining cloud and platform agnostic container-based applications.
- Conventional Commits
A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages.
- DEPs
Django Enhancement Proposals.
Web Technologies
- BCPs
Best Current Practice, sub-series of the RFC document series.
- ECMA International Standards
Standards for information and communication systems.
- IETF RFCs
Publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the IETF.
- OASIS Open
Standards by nonprofit consortium that works to develop both open standards and open source.
- OpenID Specifications
Identity standards, the most famous of which is the decentralized authentication protocol OpenID Connect.
- Unicode Standards
Text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium.
Electronics and Hardware
- Bluetooth Core Specifications
Short-range wireless technology standard.
- HDMI Specifications
High-Definition Multimedia Interface is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data.
- IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- PCI Standards
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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