Standards, Events (including CES trade show), market research, policy and regulatory work

The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) exists to advance the interests of the decentralized identity community, including performing research and development to advance "pre-competitive" technical foundations towards established interoperable, global standards.

FIWARE Foundation drives the definition - and the Open Source implementation - of key open standards that enable the development of portable and interoperable smart solutions in a faster, easier and affordable way, avoiding vendor lock-in scenarios, whilst also nurturing FIWARE as a sustainable and innovation-driven business ecosystem.

IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been at the forefront of global technology standardization for almost 160 years. With a membership of 194 member states and more than 1000 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations the ITU serves as the primary international platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure that the metaverse can be harnessed for the benefit of all, while minimizing potential risks and promoting sustainable development.

The mission of the Metaverse Acceleration and Sustainability Association (MASA) is to undertake activities to accelerate the development of metaverse-related technologies, ecosystems and markets across the world, and to do so in a sustainable manner, supporting sustainable development goals. Our workstreams include but are not limited to: - Landscape, Outlook, and Roadmaps - Open Standards, Conformity Assessment and Certification - Open-Source Reference Implementations and Pilot Applications - Digital Assets Pool and Exchange - Innovation-Driving Competitions and Rankings - Advocacy and Lobbying for Broad Acceptance and Adoption - Coordination for Responsible Development: Safety, Privacy, Ethics, Inclusion, and Sustainability - Metaverse Commercialization, Capitalization, and Monetization

MPAI is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated under the laws of Switzerland with the mission to promote the efficient use of Data by A) developing Technical Specifications of 1) Coding and decoding for any type of Data, especially using new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, and 2) technologies that facilitate integration of Data Coding and Decoding components in Information and Communication Technology systems, and by B) bridging the gap between Technical Specifications and their practical use through the development of Intellectual Property Rights Guidelines ("IPR Guidelines"), such as Framework Licences and other instruments.

MPEG is the group that develops standards for coded representation of digital audio, video,3D Graphics and genomic data. Since its establishment in 1988, the group has producedstandards that help industry offer end users an ever more enjoyable digital mediaexperience.

The Object Management Group(R) Standards Development Organization (OMG(R) SDO) is an international (27 countries), membership-driven (230+ organizations) and not-for-profit consortiumMISSION STATEMENTTo generate technology standards (250+) that provide quantifiable real-world value to all vertical industries. That is why we are dedicated to bringing together our international membership community of end-users, researchers and vendors in academia government and industry to develop and revise our standards as technologies change over time.VISIONTo provide a neutral forum where best practices from a wide range of fields can be discussed and standards can be generated that drive the adoption and innovation of cutting-edge technology spanning industries worldwide. Our Standards Process is fair, robust, transparent, and well-documented, while our standards are implemented everywhere: agriculture (DDS), autonomous vehicles (DDS), avionics (SysML & UML), business (BPMN), energy (DDS), finance (FIBO & FIGI), healthcare (DDS), military (DDS, SysML, UML), retail (UPOS), telecommunications, transportation (DDS), and space (DDS, GEMS, SOLM, XTCE, XUSP). Our one organization-one vote policy ensures that every member organization, despite size, has an effective voice in our voting process."

Create standards, software repositories, and infrastructure for the Web3 metaverse

All real-world to digital world related use-cases that could benefit from open standards, protocols, architectures and best practice guidelines.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. OGC's member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available, open geospatial standards. Existing at the cutting edge, OGC actively analyzes and anticipates emerging tech trends, and runs an agile, collaborative Research and Development (R&D) lab - the OGC Innovation Program - that builds and tests innovative prototype solutions to members' use cases.

Open Source software projects for the Open Metaverse

The Open Metaverse Interoperability Group is an open source community of industry professionals, independent creators, and passionate enthusiasts whose goal is to build interoperable technology together. OMI's mission is to bridge virtual worlds across interfaces & technologies by researching, designing & promoting protocols for identity, social graphs, inventory, and sharing of creative work in the 3D web & open metaverse.

Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.

Global Vision: Unlocking physics in a computer.Global Mission: To unlock innovation and advancements across industries by creating a shared foundation for digital material representation.*Please see attached deck in the Supplementary Information section.

Open Standards for Real-time 3D Communication

Refine an open digital architecture to synergize virtual and physical traveler ecosystems

Web standardization

An American nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the open-source Metaverse, founded upon universal interoperability of open standards and protocols, decentralized away from individual corporations and government regulations.