Industry-Standard Frameworks are a set of criteria within an industry relating to carrying out operations known as best practices; this is the best way that the operations should be set up and carried out. Best practices produce better results than a standard way of setting up the operations.
These industry standard frameworks are carried out by all members of that industry. In networking, the International Standard Organization (ISO) is responsible for the industry framework within communications and the IT industry. The ISO is a body comprising international standards bodies that mainly look at communication.
A Reference Architecture is a document or a set of documents to which a project manager or other interested party can refer for best practices; this will include documents relating to hardware, software, processes...
