past standards efforts

There are many  past standards efforts  and the moral of this incomplete historical list is that we‘ve had too many efforts to produce standards, and we've had even more efforts at producing talking shops, and not nearly enough attempts at actually building implementations.


 * See standards for currently actively implemented specifications.

This page is historical from ~2015.

Specifications

 * FOAF, SIOC
 * Portable Contacts
 * OpenSocial
 * Salmon
 * ActivityStreams
 * APML
 * RSS
 * Atom
 * XFN
 * XRI/XDI/i-Names

Projects

 * DiSo Project

Organisations

 * DataPortability.org
 * Microformats.org
 * OpenSocial Foundation
 * Open Web Foundation
 * W3C Social Working Group
 * Identity Commons