We discuss some frequently neglected issues relating to corporate communication infrastructures. The perception of services like e-mail as infrastructural — and thus less interesting — lies at the heart of...
...as underestimated. Nor do the royalty rates predicted by the holdup model apply if there is competition in the downstream product market or upstream market for inventions. Royalty stacking does...
“Formal worldwide, regional and national Agencies for Communications Standardization” (FACS) such as the International Telecommunications Union and related formal agencies that standardize communications interfaces are losing standardization market share to...
Technical standards are basic to the exploitation of all technology. For almost 100 years, national and international standards development organizations (SDOs) have developed voluntary, consensus-based standards and reduced the need...
The Global Information Highway (GIH) is society’s vision for the telecommunications systems that may one day provide nearly unbounded personal communications. To make this vision practical, telecommunications standards which define...
...any comparison, and describes how technical standards function to provide commonality. A taxonomy of technical standards is offered which identifies how technical standards are used to convert information to communications....
The management of high technology communications companies often view public technical standards, as mechanisms that may reduce their market control and profit margins. This viewpoint has considerable historical precedent, but...
Without the cubit, the pyramids could not have been built. Technical standards are the foundation of each technological advance. Each succeeding innovation is linked by reference to prior technical standards....
...identified by an emerging new class of technical standards. Technical standards throughout recorded history are a means to enable communications, inherent in all complex systems, and basic to communications engineering....
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill, H.R. 1086, that would limit liability under the antitrust laws for qualifying Standards Development Organizations, increase the maximum individual and corporate criminal...