On the 6th October 2010, the European Commission published a communication on the Innovation Union. In order to realise the Innovation Union, barriers to bring ideas to the market should be removed. Among various obstacles, it is pointed out that a “faster setting of interoperable standards” is needed. The EC announces for 2011 a “legislative proposal on standardisation, which will inter alia cover the ICT sector, in order to speed up and modernise standard-setting to enable interoperability and foster innovation in fast-moving global markets.” However, it remains rather unclear how this objective will be reached. The only concrete policy approach is the announced “programme to anticipate new standardisation needs and integration of standards into R&D projects in the research Framework Programme.”
Posts Tagged ‘interoperability’
Interoperability within the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiative – the Innovation Union
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Creating a Modern Framework
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
The importance of standards in our developing industrial society is growing as technology moves into increasingly complex territories. This common ground helps to ensure that the assortment of technological possibilities is kept to a necessary minimum, whilst also establishing a widespread level of compatibility and quality.
Interview with Elena Santiago, CEN-CENELEC Director General
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
This exclusive interview with Mrs Elena Santiago, CEN-CENELEC Director General, was conducted for Talkstandards.com via email during October 2010 in relation to the Open Forum “Reforming EU Standardization“.
Summary of Open Forum: Standards and OSS
Friday, August 27th, 2010During August, Talkstandards.com hosted an open forum focused towards a number of issues related to the tension between traditional software development business models, FRAND and RAND IPR licensing requirements and the open source community. The event was structured such that two featured articles were posted by Talkstandards regular Stacy Baird (Managing Director of Citrus Co.) and James Bryce Clark (from OASIS). In response to these featured articles, a series of expert contributors were invited to post introductory remarks, upon which the event discussion took place. These articles are summarized below. Please follow the links to access the articles in full.
The OSS Roadmap To a Minefield of Patents
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
As you know, open standards work and open source code development have some similarities. Both systems are designed to permit strangers to collaborate in joint design. Both have rules for discovering and filtering private patent or copyright claims, with the goal that end-users can access and use the outputs safely. While they’re two distinct systems, usually they are complementary, not in opposition.
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Exploring the Browser Market
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) dominates the web browser market in terms of users, commanding a market share of over 60%. But there is an increasing trend towards alternatives such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. These alternatives, which in according to some measures offer superior technical performance and standards compliance, have gradually been eroding IE’s lead.
Time and standards wait for no one : Lessons from the long, slow birth of the DAB radio standard
Monday, July 19th, 2010
The BBC has published an article about the long, slow birth of DAB radio which can be summarized as follows:
• Currently, the British government is pushing hard for listeners to switch to Digital radio and specifically the DAB standard. While DAB is heralded as the ‘technology of the future’, few know that it is really ‘the technology of the past’ since it is about 30 years old. While the first development began in 1981, the first receivers were available only in 1999 and it is only ten years after that (2010) that there is some real commercial interest in DAB.
The Government at the Standards Bazaar Redux (Or, When Should A Government Mandate An IT Standard?) – PART 2
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010This is the second 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 posted on a bi-weekly basis. The first in the series can be seen here – Editor
PART 2: There are Good Reasons for Government to be Reluctant to Mandate IT Standards
To start with the end: Government should be reluctant to mandate an IT standard. Before regulating an industry, policy makers have to look at a few things: the sophistication of the industry with regard to what is being considered for regulation; the capacity of industry to address a perceived problem without government regulation; whether regulation would be contrary to or in support of good public policy; and finally, whether the risk of “government failure” outstrips the risk of market failure. It is incontrovertable that when it comes to standards, the IT industries are sophisticated.
Smart grid standards: IEEE P1547.8 more than a point release of a standard
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
IEEE has announced the availability of IEEE P1547.8 standard which is a draft standard establishing a common technical platform for distributed resources interconnection applications.
IEEE P1547.8 expands on IEEE 1547 and also incorporates National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations for improved interconnection performance functionality
The Government at the Standards Bazaar Redux (Or, When Should A Government Mandate An IT Standard?) – PART 1
Monday, July 12th, 2010This is the first in a series of articles in which contributor Stacy Baird will analyse the role of governments in standards setting initiatives which will be posted on a bi-weekly basis – Editor