The 4th Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, 2005.最新文献

{"title":"Open standards and the problem with submarine patents","authors":"Aura Soininen","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2005.1563810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2005.1563810","url":null,"abstract":"Standardization is essential in industries such as ICT in which network effects are strong, and product compatibility and interoperability have comprehensve benefits. The objective ofstandardization is to promote industry-wide acceptance ofnew technologies. Although non-proprietary standards are often preferred, proprietary technology may have technical benefits, and it may therefore be rational to choose that for a standard. Whenever someone can claim control over a technology, however, conflicts of interest are likely to result. Indeed,the relationship between patents and open standards is problematic. The patent policies of standards organizations aim to reduce these conflicts: participants are typically encouraged to disclose essential patents and to license them on a royalty-free basis or on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Unfortunately disclose and licensing requirements are often inadequate and it is possible that patents claiming standardized technology surface after the establishment of a standard. This paper examines whether U.S. antitrust and EC competition laws could be applied with a view to diminishing the submarine patent problem.","PeriodicalId":22233,"journal":{"name":"The 4th Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, 2005.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85743109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flexible standards","authors":"Jørn A. Braa, O. Hanseth, A. Heywood, Woinshet Mohammed","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2005.1563795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2005.1563795","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the issue of strategies for developing information infrastructures. We identify complexities as the main source of the challenges that such strategies need to address and propose the concept offlexible standards as a key element in the respect. This concept/strategy is developed based on two main sources. The first is theoretical: general theories of complexity and a information infrastructure \"design theory\" which are built on the theories of complexity. The second source is a case study examining experiencesfrom two developing countries:Thailand and South-Africa.","PeriodicalId":22233,"journal":{"name":"The 4th Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, 2005.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86370024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Welcome to SIIT 2005","authors":"M. Sherif, T. Egyedi","doi":"10.1109/SIIT.2005.1563791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIIT.2005.1563791","url":null,"abstract":"T he development, the implementation and the diff-usion of standards depend on many factors such as the type of innovation, the ease of implementation and verification of compliance, the market dynamics and the regulatory environment. This makes standard management a risky activity. On a societal level, the impact of standards, particularly in the areas of information and telecommunication, is felt far beyond the meeting rooms where the specifications are being discussed and written. Yet, when Kai Jakobs convened the first SUT conference in Aachen in September 1999, standards researchers and practitioners did not have a forum to meet and discuss how to move standards setting from a skill-based trade into a science-based endeavor. We see two main reasons for this. First, standards research is an interdisciplinary project that mobilizes expertise from various horizons. The interdisciplinary nature of the activity results in a hybrid creature that does not fit easily within the established academic boundaries. Second, the time it takes from convening a standardization committee to the deployment of a product into a market is typically much longer than the quarterly window through which financial markets evaluate companies. As a result, those that are not involved in standardization may prefer to believe in the spontaneous generation of good standards, in zero time and at no costs. What is the status in 2005, six years after the first SIlT conference? On the positive side, we have a biannual gathering at an international level and, related, the International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (J1TSR). The exchange of ideas in these fora can contribute to the crystallization of shared assumptions as well as the convergence onto common tools and methodologies. This step is essential for the field to mature and to take its place in the academic cursus. On the negative side, the research community is still relatively small and the scientific basis agreed to so far does not readily translate into prescriptive models and decision-making tools for managerial control. In this stage of community and concept building, we still need to raise awareness and encourage more encompassing contributions without expecting quick results. We hope that the current volume of refereed papers is another contribution toward making standard research a legitimate academic discipline. The papers address the following topics on information and telecommunication standards: *Current trends in standardization including regulations and quality assessment. * The economic value of standardization and the effect of standards on economic development. * Experiences from standards implementation in the areas of e-government, data exchange, web security, networked applications (voice over IP and wireless LANs) as well as consumer electronics (DVDs). * Impact of patents on standardization particularly in the area of open standards. * Several aspects of the dynamic of standa","PeriodicalId":22233,"journal":{"name":"The 4th Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, 2005.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90629023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}