An Opportunity to Define International Standard-setting Procedures

An Opportunity to Define International Standard-setting Procedures

ISEAL Alliance

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2003)

In this paper, we review the factors influencing the evolution of the global standards system. We then discuss some of the approaches that governments have taken or are exploring in order to modify the system for the benefit of domestic and worldwide economic development. We use as an example an effort of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to encourage voluntary consensus standards for interoperable broadband wireless access systems.