The purpose of this report, commissioned by NASA, was to assess the return on investment that the implementation of geospatial information standards of various types can provide to those that...
...hobbyist groups on the Internet. The user group chosen as a case study for this project was online amateur fiction community. This community was chosen because it could benefit from...
The Commission should undertake to study whether antitrust law and policy should require standards-setting organizations (“SSOs”) to adopt procedures and intellectual property rights (“IPR”) policies that require disclosure — of...
...system largely driven by the private sector. This study reviews the historical roots of the American system, examines its defining characteristics, and highlights its strengths and weaknesses. A tradition of...
...Joins OpenOffice.org Community The OpenOffice.org community – responsible for the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office – today welcomed IBM as a community member. IBM has announced immediate code...
For its proponents, America’s voluntary standards system is a ‘best practice’ model for innovation policy. Foreign observers however are concerned about possible drawbacks of a standards system that is largely...
Standard setting organizations often require their members to declare which of their patents are essential to the practice of a prospective standard, and to agree to license any such standard-essential...
Develops and promotes standards, practices, research and events related to both print and digital publishing The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) is a book industry trade association for policy,...
...policies and the dangers those policies were created go guard against. For example, to guard against patent abuse, participation in a working group would at minimum require that the free...
This paper examines and illustrates the process of setting technical intercommunication standards through a case-study taken from the electronic voting industry. It begins by addressing the large number of types...