...issue. It is, in fact, a complex and fascinating amalgam of public and private concerns, a nexus of economic, sociological, and political forces. An examination and analysis of the standards-setting...
Standards play a particularly critical role in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry: they facilitate important interoperability goals. Standards development processes in the ICT industry are extraordinarily complex, and...
On October 28, 2004, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Report and Order (ET Docket No. 04-37) adopting new technical rules for the operation of Broadband over Power...
...before the start of production, someone notes, almost in passing, that “Company X has been in the news lately suing companies for patent infringement,” and asks, “Don’t we use some...
Formal standardization – explicit agreement on compatibility standards – has important advantages over de facto standardization, but is marred by severe delays. I explore the tradeoffs between speed and the...
Undeniably ICT (information and communications technology) standardization is at a critical crossroads. The needs of the marketplace, in terms of timeliness, functionality and interoperability, once so well-served by traditional standardization...
...order to modify the system for the benefit of domestic and worldwide economic development. We use as an example an effort of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology...
...are given, based on a critical literature review, combined with insights obtained from a survey. Finally, a proposal for a new standards setting process is made that takes all these...
...many claim that the standards setting process adopted by the Internet community is vastly superior to those of the more ‘traditional’ standards setting bodies, such as ISO and ITU. An...
Standards process is seen as an important determinant of innovation within the ICT sector. However, not many studies have focused on the mechanism at work within the standards- making process....