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Andy Updegrove

Welcome to the New ConsortiumInfo.org

3/17/2021

It’s been almost twenty years since ConsortiumInfo.org first went live, and eighteen since I posted my first Standards Blog entry (since then, the first two years of blog posts have mysteriously disappeared). It was a pretty humble offering back in …

Effectiveness of Voter Security Standard in Doubt – Or Is It?

2/19/2021

It’s been fifteen years since the federal best practices standard for voting machines was last amended. During the intervening time we’ve seen Russian interference in the 2016 elections and allegations of fraud in the 2020 contest. Clearly, strong standards are …

How You Can have an Impact on European Openness Policy

10/21/2020

Are there political dimensions to open source software and hardware? Americans might be surprised to see such a question, given Washington’s almost complete indifference to the dramatic rise of these approaches to technology development. But that’s not the case in …

Invitation to Participate in Comments Regarding Huawei Participation in Standards Development

8/05/2020

Since May of 2019, standards setting organizations (SSOs) and U.S. companies have been struggling with the blowback from the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) to add Huawei and scores of its affiliated companies to the “Entity List” …

Department of Commerce Clears Huawei for Standards Development – Part Way

6/16/2020

Seal of the US Department of Commerce

The long face-off between the Trump administration and Huawei involving standards development has finally been resolved. Well, yes and no, on which more below.

Initially the issue was whether standards setting organizations (“SSOs”) would be able to permit the Chinese …

Equality Before the Law: A Failed Standard?

6/08/2020

The first assertion of liberty in the U.S. Declaration of Independence reads as follows:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among …

U.S. Moves Towards Resolving Permitting US Companies to Collaborate with Huawei on 5G Standards

5/12/2020

Department of CommerceRegular readers will know that the addition of Huawei and scores of its subsidiaries to the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List last May has had a serious impact on standards setting organizations (SSOs). Specifically, the related …

What the Administration is Missing About Huawei and 5G

4/15/2020

Huawei LogoA few weeks ago it seemed likely that the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”), would issue new guidance that might free standards setting organizations (SSOs) from the difficult position they have found themselves in for …

Standards and Open Source News Summary – March 5, 2020

3/05/2020

There’s been a lot of activity in diverse parts of the standards and open source software development world of late. Here’s a selection of items you may have missed that I think might be of greatest interest.

A Brief History of Open Source Software, Part 3: The FOSS Environment Today

1/10/2020

In its simplest form, FOSS development requires almost no traditional economic, physical or management support. All that is needed is a place to host code in a manner that allows multiple developers to collaborate on its further development. As FOSS has become more commercially valuable and widely incorporated into vendor and customer strategic plans, however, additional layers of services and structures have evolved to allow FOSS development to become more efficient and robust and the user experience even more productive. These include training, a growing certification testing network, a variety of tools to assist in legal compliance matters, and a network of hosting entities providing a wide range of supporting services and frameworks.

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