The British Standards Institution (BSI) announced in a 2009 press release in a that work had begun to formulate the PAS 98 “Code of practice for the establishment and management of Consortia”, a good practice guide. The code is to be internationally applicable and provide support for consortia in e.g. standards development and interoperability.
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In January, Talkstandards.com hosted an open forum on SSO Governance and the rules of standardization (Event page here). The benefits of diversity were stressed by Oliver Bell and Ajit Jaokar who pointed to the fact that diversified organizations can fill gaps in the SSO market, which is done by e.g. the Open Web Foundation. No standard developed by any given organization can be said to have any immediate intrinsic value, thus a flexible and agile SSO ecosystem offers means to guarantee that market needs are fulfilled.
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I first saw this initiative at Kim Cameron’s Identity blog where he talks of Microsoft’s announcement at the RSA conference about Minimal Disclosure, End to End trust and Claims based Identity system.

The service has been implemented in Germany in partnership with Fraunhofer FOKUS – who are good friends (I have been invited to speak at FOKUS events for a few years now and I highly recommend it for some cutting edge thinking).
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In the previous section of the blog (read Part 1 HERE, Part 2 HERE), we saw the multiple standards bodies that operate at the interface of the Smart meter (AMI) and the Home area network (HAN). In this concluding section, we shall see the role of the customer.

The consumer and the interface to the consumer is a key part of the HAN and AMI systems. The consumer consumes electricity, natural gas, water or other utility and consequently has the greatest potential to conserve and manage the consumption of those utilities
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