In a previous post about the future of standards, – I mentioned that standards are boring but a necessary part of ICT strategy. Having said that, the future of standards is an interesting space – especially due to the management of the standards setting process involved ex. the complexity on a global scale

The current discussion of standards centers on the ‘Open v.s. Closed’ dichotomy .. whereas I think the future may be more complex considering a whole range of standards – which I call as a taxonomy

This is a stub post – I will expand it later .. but here are my initial thoughts on creating a taxonomy of standards

a) Creation vs consumption – devices which create content vs consumer (i.e. communications requires greater level of interoperability)

b)  Global standards vs local standards

c)  Levels of standards in the software stack – at what level is the standard(network, platform, service)

d)   Standards for platforms that originate in one platform and span other platforms (IPTV, Chrome Web OS) etc

e)  Cloud standards

f)  Emerging vs mature technology (standards for)

g)  Emerging markets vs advanced markets

h) Standards for within an industry segment v.s. across industry segments(web – telecoms; banking – telecom; TV – Web)

i) Open vs closed

h) Generative vs non generative(standards and the ability to reuse devices from their original purpose) + mashups

i) Business models for standards

Ok. What else?

This is just a stub .. and each element is a more complex blog .. but I just wanted to start the brainstorm process in an attempt to classify standards

comments welcome

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