...to be more promising than a multilateral approach because of the greater trust and commonality of interest at the regional level- with regard to mutual recognition agreements. For reasons of...
...limits, rather than promotes, innovation, is populated by multiple individuals who can be seen as entrepreneurs of standardization, either in a particular technical arena or on a broader, organizational level....
...at the national level to address global information economy challenges. The fear that other national governments might follow suit seems to have helped to cool enthusiasm for TPM among some...
...the international de jure community. But the de jure community has failed to politically and procedurally reinvent themselves to accommodate the Internet – the schism has not been bridged. Its...
...gTLDs demonstrate that their proposals would not enable competitive (alternate) roots and ICANN’s preventing certain types of non-price competition among registrars (requiring the UDRP). ICANN’s rule adoption process might be...
This paper reports and analyses the views of long-standing active members of standards setting working groups in the field of electronic communications. We focus in particular on their experiences of,...
...issue for many computer users? This paper will describe how HTTP “cookies” work, and how Netscape’s original specification evolved into an IETF Proposed Standard. I will also offer a personal...
Standards have so much to offer that we at the Web Standards Project (WSP) consider it necessary to help you learn more about them. This document is merely a starting...
The authors offer a detailed analysis of the coordination costs behind the standardization of 56K modems. They focus primarily on market events and standard-setting activities during early deployment. They argue...
...R&D investments. This last result is interesting for two reasons, both of which point to the importance of examining R&D subsides and IPR policies in tandem as we have done...