THE RINGBERG STANDARDS FOR NGC-1068

We present basic ''constants'' for NGC 1068 for which there is some ag reement between observers using the best available data. While the lis ted values may ultimately undergo slight corrections, our intention is to encourage researchers to adhere to a common standard. To illustrat e one of the most frustrating inconsistencies, in a random survey of a dozen papers (1975-1995), the distance to NGC 1068 is placed anywhere in the range 10 to 30 Mpc, which unnecessarily complicates discussion s of global quantities such as energies, linear scales, total masses, and so forth. As a sort of NGC 1068 vade mecum, we also provide summar ies of recent, useful measurements to facilitate literature searches a nd first-order calculations and comparisons.