1 Slides for Class #7 ASU Technology Standards Seminar March 8, 2010 Brad Biddle
2 IntroductionTaxonomy / “How”Business strategy / “Why”AntitrustIPR: RAND v. RFIPR(+): “Openness”IPR: Patent poolsPolicy: private stnds & lawPolicy: Role of governmentCase study: ChinaStudent presentations * Guest discussion re USB 3/223/294/54/124/194/26
3 Everyone loves “open standards”!
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5 … but we can’t agree what they are
6 ITU
7... ANSI
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9 Tsilas
10 Krechmer
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12 Perens
13 Rosen
14 Ghosh
15 DeNardis (“maximal openness” definition)
16 Maximal openness Closed: a specification developed by a single company with no avenue for participation by other parties. The spec is unavailable for other parties to use, even for a fee, to develop interoperable products based on the specification. The spec developer owns all the IPR and does not license it under any terms. DeNardis
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18 ‘Conservative’ views: procedural due process, RAND IPR Open source-centric views: open participation, RF IPR ‘A2K-centric’ views: non- traditional innovation arguments, political and economic emphasis
19 Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs) Formal, recognized standards development orgs (SDOs) Consortia (sometimes “SIGs”) “A collaboration of stakeholders with the common goal of the standardization of a specific technology or application” International “Big I” or “FISDOs”: ITU, ISO, IEC, JTC1 [“Little I”: e.g. ASTM, IEEE] Special Interest Groups (SIGs) “focus on a single standard for a specific technology or industry” “[usually] limited to development and possibly promotion” “generally short-lived” Alliances “develop multiple related standards for a technology” “may offer… logo and certification programs, marketing…” “life cycle may be relatively long” Regional e.g. ETSI, COPANT National Coordination bodies: e.g. CESI, ANSI Accredited SSOs: e.g. TIA, INCITS, NEMA, SAE -Based on taxonomy described in IPO Standards Primer (Sept. 2009) Develop “Specifications” Develop “Standards” GENERALLY RAND, PROCEDURALLY ‘OPEN’ MIXED RAND/RF; MIXED PROCEDURAL OPENNESS
20 Maximal openness Closed Exercise: where do some of these familiar SIGs/SDOs fall on DeNardis’ scale?