Standards, standards, standards... open?

• ITU ( International Telecommunication Union ) http://www.itu.int/publications/default.aspx

• NGN ( Next Generation Network ) http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/2001-2004/com13/ngn2004/index.html

• ITU-T ( Recommendations ) http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=series〈=e&parent=T-REC
• ITU-T (Recommendations X ) Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Security frameworks for open systems. http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=products〈=e&parent=T-REC-X
  
• X.805, X.810-X.816

• Audiovisual and Multimedia Systems http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=products〈=e&parent=T-REC-H
• International Numbering Resources http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/index.html
  

• RFC's ( Request For Comments )
  
• IETF http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
• FAQs.org http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ ( Internet RFC's and 'other' RFC's )

• ITIL ( IT Infrastructure Library ) http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=2261
  
• 3G http://www.3gpp.org/
• COSO and COBIT ( Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies ) http://www.sox-online.com/coso_cobit.html
• ISACA ( Information Systems Audit and Control Association ) http://www.isaca.org/
  
• ITGI ( IT Governance Institute ) http://www.itgi.org/
• Sarbannes-Oxley http://www.sarbanes-oxley.com/ ( Publicly traded U.S. companies. )