...Council of Research and Technology. The titular goal of the RFI is to assist the Sub-Committee in assessing the “Effectiveness of Federal Agency Participation in Standardization in Select Technology Sectors.”...
...evidence on the effects of patent pools on innovation; nineteenth-century data, however, indicate that pools that operate in the absence of restrictions on anti-competitive practice discourage innovation. This paper examines...
...vested interest in promoting open technical standards adhering to principles of transparency, cost efficiency, and interoperability. This paper examines various possibilities for governments to engage with information and communication technology...
...to implement its commitment to “creating a common and secure IT infrastructure based on a suite of compulsory open standards, adopting appropriate open standards wherever possible” (Government ICT Strategy, published...
This policy explains how the UK government selects open standards for software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT. It also guides UK government departments on how to implement...
In a series of fast-moving and interrelated developments involving courts and competition authorities in many regions and countries, holders of patents deemed “essential” to industry standards are finding their ability...
As the amount of cultural data available on the SemanticWeb is expanding, the demand of accessing this data in multiple languages is increasing. Previous work on multilingual access to cultural...
...paper develops a simple model of standard setting committees and tests its predictions using data from the Internet Engineering Task Force, an SSO that produces many of the standards used...
Standard-setting organizations typically require FRAND commitments from owners of standard-essential patents in order to ensure the availability of technologies needed to practice the standard. Failure to observe these FRAND commitments...
...safety, benefits, and testing standards. An individual who seeks access to this binding law generally cannot freely read it online or in a government depository library, as she can the...