Forming, Funding, and Operating Standard-Setting Consortia

Andrew Updegrove

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 1993)

In general, the greater the proprietary, or strategic, motivations for the formation of a consortium, the less likely the consortium will succeed and sustain itself. In contrast, nonstrategic consortia continue to provide useful de facto standards to the industry at large. Both types of consortia can benefit from an understanding of how their structures, governance, funding and other attributes contribute to their success or failure