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Governance, policies, glossary, and roadmap for the Open Operational State standard and its evolution.

Pay.UK Limited is the recognised operator and standards body for the United Kingdom's interbank retail payment systems. It runs the domestic rails that move most of the money in the UK economy: Bacs (batch Direct Debit and Direct Credit), the Faster Payment System (24/7 real-time account-to-account payments), and the Image Clearing System for…

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) is a proposed open standard for the discovery layer that sits in front of every agentic protocol — the step before invocation, where a client asks "what is available for this task?" and gets back a ranked set of MCP servers, agent cards, skills, workflows and APIs it could use.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is the U.S. standard-setting and regulatory support organization created and governed by the chief insurance regulators of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five territories.

3GPP (the 3rd Generation Partnership Project) is the global standards partnership that writes the technical specifications for mobile networks — GSM, UMTS, LTE, 5G and the ongoing 6G work — through seven regional Organizational Partners (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA and TTC) and a membership of operators, vendors and chipset makers.

CAMARA is the Telco Global API Alliance — an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation that defines, builds, and tests a unified set of network APIs across the world's mobile operators.

The Green Button Alliance (GBA) is the non-profit that stewards, tests and certifies the Green Button standard — the NAESB REQ.21 Energy Services Provider Interface (ESPI) profile for utility customer electricity, natural gas and water usage data, in its Download My Data (DMD) and Connect My Data (CMD) forms.

ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is a not-for-profit standards development organisation headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France, and one of only three bodies officially recognised by the European Union as a European Standards Organisation.