Title
A Time and a Place for Standards
Abstract
History shows how abuses of the standards process have impeded progress. Over the next decade, we will encounter at least three major opportunities where success will hinge largely on our ability to define appropriate standards. That's because intelligently crafted standards that surface at just the right time can do much to nurture nascent industries and encourage product development simply by creating a trusted and reliable basis for interoperability. From where I stand, the three specific areas I see as particularly promising are: (1) all telecommunications and computing capabilities that work together to facilitate collaborative work; (2) hybrid computing/home entertainment products providing for the online distribution of audio and/or video content; and (3) wireless sensor and network platforms (the sort that some hope the 802.15.4 and ZigBee Alliance standards will ultimately enable). No doubt there will be others, but for the purposes of this discussion, these should suffice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1028893.1028900
ACM Queue
Keywords
Field
DocType
home entertainment product,standards process,computing capability,network platform,nascent industry,collaborative work,zigbee alliance standard,hybrid computing,appropriate standard,major opportunity,product development
Wireless,Alliance,Computer science,Computer security,Interoperability,sort,Home entertainment,New product development
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
2
6
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gordon Bell11050532.60