World Wide Web Consortium (W3∞)
Document Formats Domain∞ - Interaction Domain∞ [en]

OASIS
A non-profit, international consortium that creates interoperable industry specifications based on public standards∞ [en]

OpenStandards
A non-profit organization connecting people to open standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth∞ [en]

Xiph.org
A non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests∞ [en]

OpenWeb
Ressource francophone sur les standards Web∞ [fr]

AFUL
Groupe de travail sur l'interopérabilité∞ [fr]

Web Standards (WASP)
A grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all∞ [en]

Thierry Stoehr
Pour les formats ouverts∞ [fr]

Wikipedia
«Embrace, Extend and Extinguish»∞ [en]
Open Standard∞ [en]
De facto Standard∞ [en]

Gordon Bennett
Build Systems, Not Companies, on Open Standards∞ [en]

Jonathan Schwartz
Open source versus open standards∞ [en]

Scott Petty
Open source vs. open standards∞ [en]

Imran William Smith
The Rise of Proprietary Formats: The New Battleground∞ [en]

Lionel Allorge
Guide aux formats ouverts et aux formats propriétaires∞ [fr]

Sean Cohen
Why free software matters∞ [en]
De l'importance du Logiciel Libre∞ [fr]

Erik Fair
Software versus Protocol (or file format) Standards∞ [en]

GNU
Why there are not GIF files on GNU pages∞ [en]

Ken Krechmer
The Principles of Open Standards∞ [en]

Jeff Goldberg
MS-Word is Not a document exchange format∞ [en]

IRISA
Recommandations sur le format d'échange des documents∞ [fr]

Département de Mathématique de Jussieu
A propos de la manipulation de documents Word∞ [fr]

OpenMeans
Promouvoir les spécifications publiques des formats sans renoncer aux logiciels propriétaires.∞ [fr]

OpenOffice
Official site of the free productivity suite based on open formats.∞ [multilingual]

ODP: Open Standards
Resources on open formats∞ [en]
Ressources en français sur les formats ouverts∞ [fr]
Risorse in italiano sui formati aperti∞ [it]

Bruce Perens
Open Standards:Principles and Practice∞ [en]

Raphaël Rousseau
Court argumentaire en faveur des formats ouverts∞ [fr]

Thomas Petazzoni
Formats ouverts : pourquoi et comment les utiliser ?∞ [fr]

Sincere Choice
Open formats, interoperability and research availability∞ [en]

Mike S
The Threat of Standardization∞ [en]

Richard Stallman
We Can Put an End to Word Attachments∞ [multilingual]

Sam Steingold
No Proprietary Binary Data Formats∞ [en]

Samuel Tardieu
Pourquoi pas Word∞ [fr]

Transfert.net
Les vices cachés des .doc∞ [fr]

Steven Wiley & George S. Michaels
Nature - Should software hold data hostage?∞ [en]

National Advisory Council on Innovation, South Africa
Open Software & Open Standards in South Africa - A Critical Issue for Addressing the Digital Divide∞ [en]

France, Assemblée Nationale
Proposition de loi Le Déaut - Paul - Cohen∞ [fr]

State of Oregon
Open source bill∞ [en]

State of California
Digital Software Security Act∞ [en]

UNESCO
Preliminary Draft Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage∞ [en]

United Kingdom
E-Government Interoperability Framework∞ [en]

University of Buffalo, New York
Resolution for University Support of Open Software and Standards∞ [en]