World Of Taxonomy

Technology Standards and Miscellaneous Specifications

Technology Standards and Specifications

TL;DR: WoT hosts ~25 technology-standards taxonomies that don't fit cleanly into the industry / regulatory / academic / financial buckets but still describe stable enumerated value spaces: telecom and networking specs (3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R, IETF RFC, IEEE), connectivity (Bluetooth, USB, PCI-SIG, JEDEC, SEMI, VESA), web/internet (MIME types, HTTP status codes, SPDX licenses), cybersecurity catalogs (MITRE ATT&CK, CVE types, OWASP Top 10), AI / cloud-native taxonomies (AI Model Types, Cloud Native Landscape), and supplementary engineering / scientific reference (SI Units, Container ISO 6346, Periodic Table grouping is in environmental). Plus a handful of regulatory administrative anchors that don't belong in regulatory-standards.md (CFR Titles, USC Titles, IRS Forms, VAT Rate Types).


Telecom and networking standards

System Codes Authority Scope
3gpp_specs 18 3GPP 3GPP technical specifications (cellular, 5G, etc.)
itu_t 19 ITU-T International Telecommunication Union telecom recommendations
itu_r_bands 16 ITU-R ITU-R radio frequency band designations
ietf_rfc 15 IETF IETF RFC categorical groupings
ieee_standards 14 IEEE IEEE standards (skeleton; 802.x family, etc.)

Connectivity and hardware specifications

System Codes Authority Scope
bluetooth_profiles 17 Bluetooth SIG Bluetooth Special Interest Group profiles
usb_classes 23 USB-IF USB Implementers Forum device class codes
pci_sig 14 PCI-SIG PCI Special Interest Group specifications
jedec 14 JEDEC Joint Electron Device Engineering Council standards
semi_standards 14 SEMI Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International standards
vesa_standards 13 VESA Video Electronics Standards Association specifications

Web, internet, and software

System Codes Authority Scope
mime_types 16 IANA Media (MIME) type categories
http_status 17 IETF / IANA HTTP status code classes (1xx-5xx and detail)
spdx_licenses 17 Linux Foundation SPDX License List groupings
ai_model_type 17 curated AI / ML model types (curated WoT vocabulary)
cloud_native 15 CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation landscape categories

Cybersecurity catalogs

System Codes Authority Scope
mitre_attack 15 MITRE MITRE ATT&CK adversary tactics and techniques
cve_types 16 MITRE CVE / CWE vulnerability and weakness type categories
owasp_top10 11 OWASP OWASP Top 10 web application security risks
wcag 17 W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.x)

WCAG sits here for taxonomic reasons (it's a W3C specification with stable success-criterion identifiers) even though its primary use is accessibility compliance, which overlaps the Regulatory Standards page.

Engineering and scientific reference

System Codes Authority Scope
si_units 19 BIPM SI base and derived unit categories
container_iso 14 ISO 6346 Standard intermodal container type codes
nato_codification 19 NATO NATO Stock Number / Codification System (skeleton)
dod_mil_std 15 US DoD US Department of Defense MIL-STD categories
un_ammo 14 UN ECOSOC UN ammunition / dangerous-goods identification (IATG)
stanag 16 NATO NATO Standardization Agreement categories
isa_standards 12 ISA International Society of Automation standards

Regulatory administrative anchors

These are titling / numbering schemes rather than substantive regulations. They don't fit the Regulatory Standards page (which covers regulations themselves) but are stable enumerated taxonomies often referenced when citing regulations.

System Codes Authority Scope
cfr_titles 19 US OFR Code of Federal Regulations title list (Title 1 through 50)
cfr_title_49 104 US DOT (USDOT) CFR Title 49 (Transportation) detailed parts
usc_titles 23 US OLRC US Code title list
irs_forms 15 IRS IRS form-type categories
vat_rates 14 various VAT rate types (standard, reduced, super-reduced, zero)
gdpr_articles 110 EDPB GDPR article-level breakdown (companion to reg_eu_ai_act / reg_eprivacy for legal-tech use)
gdpr_basis 16 EDPB GDPR Article 6 lawful bases + special-category Article 9 bases
gdpr_rights 13 EDPB GDPR data-subject rights (access, rectification, erasure, etc.)
data_retention 16 curated Data retention period categories (curated WoT vocabulary)

Other technical reference

System Codes Authority Scope
iso_31000 47 ISO ISO 31000 risk management principles and process
gri_standards 38 GRI Global Reporting Initiative sustainability reporting standards (companion to env / financial pages)
tcfd 14 TCFD TCFD recommendations (companion to financial-systems page)
gs1_standards 14 GS1 GS1 standards meta-catalog (parent of GS1 GPC, GTIN, etc.)
edi_standards 14 various EDI standards categorization (X12, EDIFACT, etc.)

Logistics and freight

System Codes Authority Scope
nmfc 19 NMFTA National Motor Freight Classification
stcc 26 AAR Standard Transportation Commodity Code
imo_ship_type 17 IMO IMO ship type classification
imo_vessel 17 IMO IMO vessel type categories
iata_aircraft 14 IATA IATA aircraft type codes
faa_aircraft_cat 16 FAA FAA aircraft category and class designations
uic_railway 15 UIC UIC railway codes
icao_doc4444 15 ICAO ICAO flight rules and procedures (Doc 4444)
wco_safe 14 WCO World Customs Organization SAFE Framework of Standards

Trade tariff / customs minor systems

These complement the main Trade Codes page which covers HS, CPC, UNSPSC, SITC, BEC.

System Codes Authority Scope
eu_taric 22 European Commission EU TARIC (Integrated Tariff of the European Union)
uk_trade_tariff 22 UK Government UK Trade Tariff
gcc_tariff 17 GCC Gulf Cooperation Council common tariff
ecowas_cet 14 ECOWAS ECOWAS Common External Tariff
prodcom 38 Eurostat EU PRODCOM (industrial production statistics)
cpv_2008 96 European Commission Common Procurement Vocabulary 2008
coicop 62 UN Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose
eccn 58 US BIS Export Control Classification Number
schedule_b 119 US Census Schedule B export classification
hts_us 120 USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States

Sports, culture, miscellaneous

System Codes Authority Scope
olympic_sports 16 IOC Olympic sports categories
fifa_confederations 14 FIFA FIFA football confederations
pantone_families 12 Pantone Pantone color family groupings
ral_colors 13 RAL RAL color standard families
isrc_format 13 IFPI International Standard Recording Code structure
isbn_groups 13 International ISBN Agency ISBN agency / language groups
richter_scale 13 various Richter / earthquake magnitude scale
usda_soil 13 USDA USDA soil taxonomy (skeleton; companion to environmental)
oecd_dac 62 OECD OECD Development Assistance Committee sector codes
seea 47 UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)
lme_metals 15 LME London Metal Exchange traded metals
opec_basket 14 OPEC OPEC reference basket of crude oils
naic_lines 30 NAIC NAIC insurance lines of business (companion to financial-systems)
haccp 13 Codex Alimentarius HACCP food-safety principles
codex_committees 19 FAO / WHO Codex Alimentarius committee structure
allergen_list 15 EU EU 14 major allergens (Annex II of Regulation 1169/2011)
ibc_2021 26 ICC International Building Code 2021
nfpa_codes 17 NFPA National Fire Protection Association codes
rics_valuation 14 RICS Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors valuation standards
contract_types 16 curated Contract type categories (curated WoT vocabulary)
board_committee 14 curated Board / committee structure types (curated)
shrm_competency 16 SHRM SHRM HR competency model
job_family 19 curated Job family taxonomy (curated WoT vocabulary; complements occupation systems)
emoji_categories 13 Unicode Consortium Unicode emoji category groupings
breeam 17 BRE BREEAM (also referenced in environmental-standards)
leed_v4_1 14 USGBC LEED v4.1 (also referenced in environmental-standards)

Why this is a "miscellaneous" page

The systems above are real, published, stable, and within size cap (per the Inclusion Policy) - so they belong in WoT - but they don't form a coherent topical cluster that justifies a dedicated page on its own. Putting them here keeps them findable while honoring the Karpathy four-channel pattern: catalog row plus topical context plus llms-full.txt presence plus wiki API exposure.

If your downstream product cares about a specific subset (say, telecom standards or cybersecurity catalogs), filter by system_id prefix at the API:

GET /api/v1/systems?prefix=itu_
GET /api/v1/systems?prefix=mitre_

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