The crème de la crème of standards management groups is [[ISO]], but I commonly run across a couple of other groups, too. If a group is included in this note, it's safe to say they are influential. ## ISO See [this pre-existing note for ISO](ISO). ## Object Management Group (OMG) The **Object Management Group** is a standards-creation group responsible for creating & maintaining: - [[SysML]] - [[UAF]] - [[BPMN]] - and more Their standards are, from my perspective, overly verbose and descriptive. It seems that, across the board, they err on the side of "*when in doubt, keep it in*". ## The Open Group **The Open Group** is a standards-creation group responsible for the creation and maintenance of: - UNIX - [[TOGAF]] - [[Archimate]] - and more Their standards I find more reasonable in terms of depth & complexity. **** # More ## Source - https://www.opengroup.org/what-we-do-technology-standards