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Title Opening standards : the global politics of interoperability / Laura DeNardis, editor
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages)
Series The information society series
Information society series.
Contents 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
Summary The economic and political stakes in the current heated debates over "openness" and open standards in the Internet's architecture
Analysis SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Computer networks -- Standards -- Government policy
Computer networks -- Standards -- Political aspects
Computer networks -- Standards -- Economic aspects
Internetworking (Telecommunication) -- Technological innovations
COMPUTERS -- Networking -- Network Protocols.
LAW -- Computer & Internet.
Form Electronic book
Author DeNardis, Laura, 1966- editor.
ISBN 9780262298223
0262298228
1283258633
9781283258630