Here is this week’s week in standards.
Web Standards
Mobile Apps “May Soon Be Dead”
On the day that Gartner reports the growth of the smartphone market by 85%, comes the counter intuitive suggestion that very soon mobile apps will be dead. Apps are, of course, the main reason people buy smartphones.
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As we near the end of the month and the Easter break, a lot has happened in the world of standards. Next week, we will post a monthly summary but for this week, here are the latest developments in Standards. Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions in the comment section below.
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On wednesday February 23, Talkstandards.com held an online open forum to discuss a number of issues related to recent EU policy developments, building upon our December 22nd mini-event “European Interoperability Strategy“. Two communications released late last year by the European Commission related to e-Government and standardization – the European Interoperability Framework version 2 and updated Guidelines for the assessment of horizontal cooperation agreements – were central to the discussion, particularly the inclusion of FRAND licensing within the EIF specification of a open standard.
Consider that ‘EIFv2′ and ‘Guidelines for the Assessment of Horizontal Cooperation Agreements’ are codes and guidelines for types of standards processes that a government entity might find acceptable or reasonable for some purpose. In that respect these two share several common criteria.
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Part 5: Putting the Man on the Moon
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Part 4: Global Smart Grid Technology
Part 3: Developing a Smart Market
Mattias Ganslandt, George Arnold, Ajit Jaokar and Kevin Doran
Part 2: Standards for innovation on the other side of the meter
The essence of the Smart Grid is the integration of ICT with PST (power system technology) to modernize the electric grid. Therefore ICT standardization and Smart Grid standardization are inextricably intertwined.
From an ICT perspective, today’s grid is much like our IT systems were thirty years ago, consisting of islands of closed proprietary systems that could not talk to one another. Realizing the vision of the Smart Grid requires evolution to an interoperable multi-vendor system of systems based on open standards.
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Ken Krechmer
The Smart Grid will be based on hundreds of standards each with many possible options which will be revised tens of times, implemented using software and hardware from thousands of vendors each of which will be revised tens of times over a possible lifetime of 50-100 years. Yet the Smart Grid is expected, and it is crucial for it, to operate and remain compatible. While initial certification processes should assure operation and compatibility of specific option sets (remember ISDN profiles?), how will later certiifcation processes be able to maintain compatibility given the very large range of operational combinations?