Develops and promotes the Single UNIX Specification, a platform infrastructure on which applications can be built with a focus on open standards for operating systems. The Open Group Platform Forum...
...is the work of Technical Committee 45, a committee chartered "To Produce a formal Standard for office productivity documents which is fully compatible with the Office Open XML Formats." As previously...
Promotes smart and fast direct deposits and direct payments with the capability to reach all U.S. bank and credit union accounts. Nacha governs the thriving ACH Network, the payment system...
Promotes and develops service standards, LSO frameworks and automation APIs, and training and certification programs for services, technologies, APIs, and professionals. MEF is a global industry association of network, cloud,...
...open standards and provides certification to support the interoperability or components, interconnects, protocols and software using “Ultra Short Reach” (USR) links, which connect dies within Multi-Chip Modules (MCMs). ...
We examine patent pools in the context of a consortium standard. Although such pools of complementary technologies are approved by antitrust authorities, the actual implementation has proved to be problematic....
...companies for disclosure of relevant patents, and the ramifications if they do not do so, including possible antitrust complaints. The author discusses the assertion that market power is conferred upon...
Conceding a part of property rights appears counter-intuitive in regards to the Porterian and RBV frameworks. However industrial economics literature and recent examples suggest that this strategy is fruitful to...
...planning for the National Information Infrastructure and by the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative. Interest in standards has also grown with the increasing attention to global commerce. In particular,...
...significant benefits. This paper proposes and demonstrates a framework for examining the financing of the standards process. This analysis examines the types of costs borne by different participants and the...