Are <i>any</i> of those except maybe 802.11 <i>born</i> of a standards committee?<p>off the top of my head: HTTP came from CERN and w3c was years later; TCP is the <i>alternative</i> to the stillborn OSI standard; POSIX is a relatively recent AT&amp;T UNIX-clone standardization effort; Ethernet was from Xerox PARC (although most of a modern implementation is from the IEEE era)