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Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, SIIT 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 141-148

  Krechmer, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication industry; Communication standards; Communications technology; IEC standards; Internet; ISO standards; Standardization; Standards organizations; Telecommunication standards; XML

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; INTERNET; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; XML;

COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY; COMMUNICATION STANDARDS; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; IEC STANDARDS; ISO STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDS;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 84945255817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIIT.2003.1251203     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. TIA: Telecommunications Industry Association; ATIS: The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (Committee T1); TTC: Telecommunications Technology Committee; TTA: Telecommunications Technology Association; ACIF: Australian Communications Industry Forum; ETSI: European Telecommunications Standard Institute.
2. International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Committee Joint Technical Committee 1. The ISO and IEC are two formal standardization organizations which operate jointly in JTC1.
3. CEN/ISSS survey of standards-related fora and consortia, October, 2002, http://www.cenorm.be/isss/Consortia2/default.htm.
4. Carl Shapiro and Hal R, Varian, Information Rules, Harvard Business School Press, 1999, page 239.
5. The description of each organization is quoted from that organization's web site.
6. Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879, initially 1986.
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8. ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network; OSI: Open System Interconnection; IMT-2000: ITU recommendations for the third generation cellular network.
9. ITU - TSB Informal Consultation Group, Martigny, February 28-29, 2000, including Document No. 8, AT&T, C. Dvorak and M. Armstrong, http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/martigny/martigny1/index.html.
10. Houlin Zhao, Director ITU-T, ITU Standardization and its new Environment, Stanford University, July 23, 2003.
11. Ken Krechmer, Market Driven Standardization: Everyone Can Win, Standards Engineering, Vol. 52, No. 4, July/August 2000, p.15-19. Papers by Krechmer are available at http://www.csrstds.com/klist.html.
12. ANSI Essential Requirements: Due process requirements for American National Standards, issued March 30, 2003.
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14. Ken Krechmer, Recommendations for the Global Information Highway: A Matter of Standards, ACM StandardView, March, 1996 Vol. 4, No. 1.
15. Ken Krechmer, The Principles Of Open Standards, Standards Engineering, November/December 1998, Vol. 50, No. 6., p. 1-6
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19. Tineke M. Egyedi, Consortium Problem Redefined: Negotiating 'Democracy' in the Actor Network on Standardization, International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, Vol. 1 No, 2, July-Dec 2003.
20. Alcatel Position on ITU, TSB Informal Consultation Group, Martigny, February 27-28, 2001, page 6.
21. Ken Krechmer, Communications Standards and Patent Rights: Conflict or Coordination?, Telecommunications Industry Association, Standards and Technology Annual Report (STAR), 1997.
22. Some consortia do better than others: The W3C lists "evolvability" (consisting of simplicity, modularity, compatibility, and extensibility) as one of its standardization goals. Evolvability addresses a very similar requirement to requirement 3 (compatibility).