Standardization and Innovation Policies in the Information Age

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR)

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 49-60

  Krechmer, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

information age; standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001863151     PISSN: 15393062     EISSN: 15393054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jitsr.2004070104     Document Type: Article

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1. An earlier version of this paper was published in Egyedi, T.M., Krechmer, K., & Jakobs, K. (Eds.), Proc. of the 3rd IEEE Conf. on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 2003.
2. Examples include: 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.
3. Examples include: Internet Engineering Task Force, (IETF), W3C, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, CableLabs.
4. Time division multiple access (TDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), and global system for mobile communications (GSM).
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8. This point is made in several submissions to the ITU-TSB Informal Consultation Group, Martigny, February 28–29, 2000, including Document No. 8, AT&T, C. Dvorak/M. Armstrong (http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/ martigny/martignyl/index.html).
9. out of 14 ITU Study Group chairmen (including TSAG) are from Sector Members [commercial organizations], slide 21, Houlin Zhao, Director ITU-T, ITU Standardization and its new Environment, Stanford University, 7/23/03.
10. This suggestion was first developed in: Krechmer, K. (1996). Recommendations for the global Information Highway: A matter of standards. StardardView, 4(1).
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