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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781792603321

Titolo

Opening standards : the global politics of interoperability / / Laura DeNardis, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

0-262-29728-0

1-283-25863-3

9786613258632

0-262-29822-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

The information society series

Disciplina

004.6/2

Soggetti

Computer networks - Standards - Government policy

Computer networks - Standards - Political aspects

Computer networks - Standards - Economic aspects

Internetworking (Telecommunication) - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Injecting the public interest into ICT standards / John B. Morris -- The government at the standards bazaar / Stacy Baird -- Governments, the public interest, and standards setting / D. Linda Garcia -- Securing the root / Brenden Kuerbis and Milton Mueller -- Open document standards for government, the South Africa experience / Andrew Rens -- An economic basis for open standards / Rishab Ghosh -- Open innovation and interoperability / Nick Tsilas -- Standards, trade, and development / John Wilson -- Questioning copyright in standards / Pamela Samuelson -- Constructing legitimacy : the W3C's patent policy / Andrew Russell -- Common and uncommon knowledge : reducing conflict between standards and patents / Brian Kahin -- ICT standard setting today : a system under stress / Andrew Updegrove -- Software standards, openness, and interoperability / Robert Sutor -- Open standards : definition and policy / Ken Krechmer.

Sommario/riassunto

The economic and political stakes in the current heated debates over "openness" and open standards in the Internet's architecture.