Internet-focused standards organizations come together on open standards principles
September 5, 2012 —
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Five Internet-focused standards organizations have endorsed a set of five principles that they say industries, companies and governments across the globe should embrace when developing open standards in their respective markets.
The ultimate objective of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society, and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) here is to get global recognition and acceptance of their five OpenStand principles. “So when you go to a certain country or region, in addition to talking about the standards that they depend on from the formal international organizations, we also can talk about the standards that they can depend on from these more economically driven, if you will, industry-driven principles that can help them develop and grow their economies in the context of global markets,” said Steve Mills, president of the IEEE Standards Association.
These principles actually have not just been created, they are the principles that these standards organizations have lived by for many years. “What’s new or different here is that our five organizations came together and agreed on the words that are expressed in the principles,” Mills said. “Before this, the principles had been written down in different forms. If you look at the processes and procedures of each organization, you’ll see these principles expressed in one form or another. What we haven’t done, until now, is come together and state them all in one unified message.”
Typically, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are the three organizations that are recognized and discussed as the formal, international standards-setting organizations, Mills said. “We’re talking about an alternate path, a phenomenon if you will, that has been present with us for two decades or so that we haven’t really ever talked about before. It’s important that we raise awareness that there’s this alternate path to global standards that is outside of the more formal processes that we typically think about and know very well,” he said.
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