Title
ABSTRACT: A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE: NOT STANDARDS, BUT COMMONALITIES
Author
Andrew Updegrove
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2004)
(Original Publish Date: 2004)
Abstract
Those involved in standard setting are used to thinking of standards as ends, rather than means. In fact, while standards are useful, they are not the only tools that may be used achieving ends traditionally solved with standards, or for achieving new challenges for which there are not historical solutions. As the advent of open source helps us understand, it is important to be open to conceiving other new tools that may be appropriate or necessary to meet new challenges. In this article, the author proposes the concept of "commonalities", which he defines as "Whatever tool(s) we need; that we need to agree on; In order to do what we agree needs to be done," as a more useful construct within which such solutions for the challenges of the future might best be determined.
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