This week passed was a quite surprising week in standards with a proposed scale down of the budgets for data.gov and other sites, yet another cloud standards body launched, plus other interesting views and news from the world of standards. Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions in the comment section below.
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This is the third in a series of articles in which contributor Stacy Baird presents and in-depth analysis of the role of governments in standards setting initiatives which is released on a bi-weekly basis. For previous instalments see here: Part 1, Part 2 – Editor
PART 3: There are Many Ways in Which the IT Develops Standards: The Most Formal Forums for Standard Setting
The IT industry’s capacity to create interoperability standards is well supported by the fact that there is a veritable alphabet soup of formal forums in which IT and related standards are developed and an equally exhaustive use of the alphabet in IT standards nomenclature. The traditional course for standards development is gaining adoption in voluntary consensus forums most commonly described as national standards bodies (NSBs) and standards development organizations (SDOs). I am not going to go into detail as to the formal processes, suffice it to say they have well established consensus processes and most have an extremely long history of success in setting a wide range of industrial standards.
Wireless communication technologies have seen significant development over the last decade. This is true both for mobile, where 3G technologies W-CDMA and cdma2000 have altered the way we are able to use our cell phones, and stationary systems, where Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Bluetooth have enabled device communication over the air instead of cables. Standardization has had an instrumental role in this developments (for a more extensive discussion see wirelessstandards2009-08-19final).
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