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Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms

Title
Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms
Author
Timothy Simcoe
Date
4/23/2014
(Original Publish Date: 6/11/2010)
Abstract
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 paper 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
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