...issue. It is, in fact, a complex and fascinating amalgam of public and private concerns, a nexus of economic, sociological, and political forces. An examination and analysis of the standards-setting...
...concern for the European Commission, which requires democratic accountability in the standards process if it is to refer to such standards in a regulatory context. The Commission’s request for new...
Standards play a particularly critical role in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry: they facilitate important interoperability goals. Standards development processes in the ICT industry are extraordinarily complex, and...
On October 28, 2004, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Report and Order (ET Docket No. 04-37) adopting new technical rules for the operation of Broadband over Power...
...before the start of production, someone notes, almost in passing, that “Company X has been in the news lately suing companies for patent infringement,” and asks, “Don’t we use some...
...specifications and technologies for networked media workflows and promotes compatibility between AAF, BXF, MXF and XML. The AMWA began in January 2000 as the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) Association, Inc....
...intended to facilitate e-Business over the Internet. ebXML seeks to provide a standard method for exchanging business messages, conducting trading relationships, communicating data in common terms, and defining and registering...
...and engineering activities for the entire European space community. The ECSS initiative aims to promote the use of existing standards, adopt commonly used international standards, and liaison with standardization organizations,...
Developed standards for customer information exchange across enterprise applications *Inactive CPExchange developed an open standard to facilitate the exchange of privacy-enabled customer information across enterprise applications. The CPExchange standard integrated...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) develops standards and other technical documentation for telecommunications, broadcasting, and information technology. ETSI is officially recognized by the European Commission and the EFTA secretariat.