Compatibility Standards in Networks

Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) use a consensus process to create new compatibility standards. Practitioners have suggested that SSOs are increasingly politicized and perhaps incapable of producing timely standards. This article develops a simple model of standard setting committees and tests its predictions using data from the Internet Engineering Task Force, an SSO that produces many of the standards used to run the Internet. The results show that an observed slowdown in standards production between 1993 and 2003 can be linked to distributional conflicts created by the rapid commercialization of the Internet. (JEL C78, L15, L86)

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Design and Implementation of the Chip for Energy Consumption and Energy Conservation and Pollution Reduction

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.738-739.1262 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 738-739 ◽

pp. 1262-1265

Author(s):

Yuan Hua Chen ◽

Li Na Zhang ◽

Jie Li

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Energy Conservation ◽

Pollution Reduction ◽

Sensitive Data ◽

Security Issues ◽

On Line ◽

Consumption Energy ◽

The Government ◽

Compatibility Standards

With the development of information technology, computer and network have been widely applied into the area of energy consumption, energy conservation and pollution reduction. Information technology brings convenience into energy conservation and environment protection management, but at the same time, it also brings security issues. In the area of energy consumption, a lot of sensitive data related to national economy and society are on-line collected. Once data theft, it will bring immeasurable losses. Furthermore, data transmission between the existing energy consumption monitoring equipment and platform has no unified interface or standard. So this paper designed a chip, used as core chip in gateway, for compatibility, standards and safety during transmission, which will provide hardware and technical support for the government and enterprises to carry out monitoring of energy consumption and conservation, to achieve energy conservation and emissions reduction targets.

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Standards for ICT

International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research ◽

10.4018/jitsr.2012010103 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 34-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tineke M. Egyedi ◽

Sachiko Muto

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Side Effect ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Critical Mass ◽

It Industry ◽

Starting Point ◽

Compatibility Standards ◽

Lock In ◽

Complementary Strategy ◽

The Eu

This paper takes the recent process towards standardizing the mobile phone charger in the EU as a starting point to consider the role that compatibility standards might play in mitigating the negative impact of ICT on the environment. Building on insights gained from the economics of standards literature, the authors explore how the inherent effects of compatibility standards – such as reducing variety, avoiding lock-in, and building critical mass – can have positive implications for the environment. While there is growing interest in how performance measurement standards initiatives with an explicit environmental purpose can contribute to sustainability, the authors argue that current standardization literature and policy have overlooked this important (side) effect of compatibility standards. Having first illustrated how excessive diversity and incompatibilities in ICT generate e-waste, discourage re-use and make recycling economically unviable, this paper develops an economic-environmental framework for analyzing the sustainability effects of compatibility standards and applies it to the case of mobile phone chargers. The authors conclude that compatibility standards are a form of ecodesign at sector level and should be recognized as a relevant complementary strategy towards greening the IT industry.

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