Allan, Here is some information on technical standards setting. There were two IEEE Conference on STANDARDIZATION and INNOVATION in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SIIT). You may access conference websites and get some articles on technical standards setting in IT sector. The first conference website: http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/siit99/Final.html The second conference website: http://www.siit2001.org/ = Also here are three books I recommend. 1. Shaping Standardization: A study of standards processes and standard policies in the field of telematic services, by Tineke Egyedi, Ph.D. Thesis, 1996, Delft Technical University: this is also published as book-format, you may get this one by using inter-library loan. I used it before. It analyzes standards setting process by using the social construction technology (SCOT) theory. I like this book very mainly because it provides a clear 'analytical' framework. If you wanna read other articles by her, here is her website: http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/webstaf/tinekee/ 2. Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure, Edited by Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, MIT 1995 covers extensive IT standards setting issues 3. Inventing the Internet, by Janet Abbate, MIT 1999 (Chapter on TCP/IP Vs. OSI is especially interesting) Good luch for your thesis, Best, Junghoon Kim ========================================= Associate instructor and Doctoral student Department of Telecommunications Indiana University, bloomington USA & Ph. D candidate Faculty of Policy Studies Chuo University, Tokyo Japan ============================ -------------------
Hello all,
After reading the recent discussion on railroad gauges deriving from ancient standards, I am curious if anyone is doing work looking into technical standards. I'm writing my undergrad honors thesis on technical Internet standards, and the need for public interest involvement in the standardization process, viewing this as a subset of the "technical is political" or "code is law" body of work. Although my thesis is predominantly policy-oriented, I'd really like some theory to work with, aside from market failures and civic governance. Chasing citations back and forth has not turned up a whole lot in this area. If anyone has any suggestions for literature that delves into examining the larger impacts of specific technical design decisions, from any perspective (sociology, psychology, policy, etc) I would really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help, /allan
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