Private-sector standards are the standards developed and adopted by different types of private entities such as industry associations, NGOs, large retailers and commercial companies. Nowadays, these standards are widely applied...
Innovation is a commercially risky and legally perilous process. It is risky because large sunk costs are often required to initiate and sustain research, product development and other steps involved...
...a common framework for trustworthy shared management of access to on-line resources in support of education and research in the United States. InCommon is intended to enable production-level end-user access...
...and transparent dialogue regarding eHealth services by synthesizing perspectives, opinions, and views, and producing balanced proposals accompanied by clear statements regarding the level of consensus supporting the proposals. *Dissolved in...
...multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming model for the C, C++ and Fortran programming languages, jointly developed and promoted by a group of computer hardware and software vendors and the user community....
...resolution power optimization, information gathering, and controls level at a much lower cost than previously achievable. The HDPV Alliance is an initiative to enable PV project developers, systems integrators, and...
Promotes ATM security by compiling and disseminating information on recognized and potential ATM attack scenarios The ATM Security Association is dedicated to improving ATM security. The association aims to compile...
Universally adopted standards help turn global markets into level playing fields, while country-specific standards and unreasonable compliance requirements can erect effective trade barriers. When the barriers go up, international competitiveness...
It was not an easy year at any level, as members of SSOs struggled with other members to advance their favorite proposals, the U.S. struggled with the world over “who...
Since WW II a complex infrastructure of human rights declarations, treaties, commissions and courts has been created at the global and regional level to identify, secure, and at times intervene...