Title
Sharing Standards: Consensus versus Speed?
Author
Roy Rada
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
Abstract
One standards organization takes years to reach consensus, while another standards organization takes months. Although changes are occurring in the most famous and internationally powerful standards organization, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to speed its consensus process, the organization that makes Internet standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force, is much faster than ISO. Why?