Standards play a particularly critical role in the information and communications technology
(ICT) industry: they facilitate important interoperability goals. Standards development
processes in the ICT industry are extraordinarily complex, and many aspects of these
processes are not well understood. Inspired by discussions at a workshop that included
leading practitioners, academics, and policymakers specializing in standards, the authors
identify factors that explain both the growing importance and the growing complexity of …

Standards play a particularly critical role in the information and communications technology
(ICT) industry: they facilitate important interoperability goals. Standards development
processes in the ICT industry are extraordinarily complex, and many aspects of these
processes are not well understood. Inspired by discussions at a workshop that included
leading practitioners, academics, and policy makers specializing in standards, the authors
identify factors that explain both the growing importance and the growing complexity of …