16.1. How to find the right standard?

There are many resources created by formal organizations for standardisation, professional and industrial associations, business associations, consortia, and fora to assist customers and users to address and find the right standard(s). Some of these organizations offer their standards freely via their website (e.g., standards developed by the ITU-T are publicly available and can be accessed freely) and some of them offer standards for a fee (e.g., most international, regional, or national SDOs). For example, one of the world's largest bibliographic databases of national, European, and international standards developed by over 200 organizations for standardisation from 29 countries, with 2,400,000 records is called the Perinorm database. (The Perinorm database for searching and managing standards has been discontinued as of December 31, 2022.). New and innovative solutions, based on the newest technologies, have been developed by the members of the Consortium that created the Perinorm database. You may find these solutions at the links: https://www.beuth.de/de/normen-management and https://cdn.afnor.org/com/cobaz/discover-en.html.