Online Forum September 2, 2009
Introductory remarks. Comments welcome. Please join the discussion!
1. Anne-Layne Farrar: Welcome Goals but Unclear Aim
2. Tim Simcoe: Further Clarification Needed
3. Marcus Glader: A Competition Law Perspective
4. Mattias Ganslandt: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
5. Dr Georg Heidenreich, Statement regarding COM(2009)324
6. Jane Winn: E-signatures and procedures for recognizing private consensus standards
7. Ajit Jaokar: Pragmatic and Progressive
The European Union (EU) is currently reviewing its ICT standardization policy. This review has resulted in a White Paper, which was published by The EU Commission’s on July 3, 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/standards/whitepaper.pdf
DG Enterprise invites comments before September 15, 2009: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=3263&lang=en
A brief summary of the White Paper can be found here: http://www.talkstandards.com/?p=1237 (August 18, 2009)
Some early reactions are summarized in this brief article: http://www.talkstandards.com/?p=1264
Talkstandards.com also arranged an open forum on May 5, 2009 in Brussels to discuss ICT standardization and the EU review of its standardization policy. Two panels where held, focusing on the issues of interoperability though standards and the definition of openness in standards.
Podcasts from May 5 are available here http://www.talkstandards.com/?page_id=1019&post_id=621
Anne Lehouk, Principal Administrator at the European Commission, gave a good background to the ongoing policy review by the EU, which is available here: http://www.talkstandards.com/?p=792
