ABSTRACT: INCITS: THEN AND NOW

Andrew Updegrove

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2003)

As the commercial realities of technology development have evolved, SDOs have found it necessary to evolve along with them. Those SDOs that have served their niches well have grown and become more influential, sometimes becoming the hubs of activities involving many SDOs. Faced with competition from the proliferation of consortia, some SDOs -- like INCITS -- have adapted by providing a link between consortium-originated standards and the international de jure bodies, such as ISO/IEC. The result of such cooperation is a more effective global standards infrastructure.