...Internet standards setting within the Internet governance context and proposes best practices in standards development based on the IGF’s four thematic principles of openness, diversity, security, and access. This submission...
Technology’s transformative power has always been a source of great expectations and challenges. Today, globalization, fueled by information and communication technologies (ICT), is rapidly changing every society. Our drive towards...
...speaking, their position is that real progress in mechanically-assisted systems verification comes, and will continue to come, from the development and application of particular tools and logics for those tools....
...patent examiners only have about 20 hours to evaluate whether an invention deserves a 20-year grant of monopoly rights that will shape the future of an industry and fundamental research....
...military planners in the acquisition, development, and implementation of command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systems that are interoperable. The Levels of Systems Interoperability (LISI) Model, although immature, provides...
In large endeavors in business and war, competitive advantage often requires capabilities that result from the interoperability of many systems and the integration of many processes. To succeed in these...
...enterprises or in minimizing the needed investment for maintaining complex systems. Current research results show that there exist common practices to be shared among public sector organisations and private sector...
...key role in mitigating any such market power, but the usefulness of those commitments has recently been questioned. The problem allegedly lies in the absence of a generally agreed test...
...this paper we examine standards making processes as if these processes were legislative processes. In the end, we suggest that by studying the legislative or standard setting process, some of...
...limiting individual behavior. However, international standards play very different roles in different circumstances. In this paper, we examine how the diversity of standard setting problems leads, through the interaction of...