This article describes various efforts to address security in three areas of the Internet protocol suite: the Internet Protocol itself (IPsec), the domain between transport and application layer (the Secure...
This section provides an overview of standards that are relevant to the ARTIST components working group. It is broadly split into two main sections: specification standards and implementation technology standards....
...architectures. In the area of Grid computing, which aims at providing a distributed computing architecture and infrastructure for science and engineering, web services have become an important piece of the...
...or software-supported learning services cannot be reused among heterogeneous systems. Additionally, although they share many common features, most e-learning systems are developed from the scratch. In this situation, a need...
...guidelines for successful standardization are presented. Both successful and failed past standards are examined for lessons and strategy. Use cases, particularly from the point of view of fair use, are...
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is one of the most heavily debated technologies currently. Several attempts are being undertaken to introduce DRM technology into mainstream products. Despised by consumers who fear...
Computing technology has progressed rapidly over the last several decades with implementations and applications that were unthinkable a decade ago now commonplace. The rate of progress, however, has brought its...
We model a situation in which agents must choose between two technologies that operate under local, positive network externalities. We find that decentralized behaviour can lead to the emergence of...
An integral part of competition is to deny rivals access to proprietary technical knowledge. Yet, Sun Microsystems provides rivals with easy access to its technical knowledge and encourages them to...
This paper analyzes the usefulness of the traffic measurement methodologies used by the European Commission (EC) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in assessing the competitive effects of...