Safeguard your standards

01 May 2010

Jeffrey Shinder offers tips for avoiding rogue behaviour by participants in standard setting organisations

In our increasingly interconnected world, standard setting organisations can be found across all types of technologies – from cell phones to consumer electronics to computers. Yet few understand that the success of these products often depends on competitors meeting for years to ensure interoperability through the development of common standards. Even fewer understand that such work can be subverted by rogue participants bent on achieving anti-competitive ends....



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