-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Latest issue of the 'Int. J. on IT Standards & Standardisation Research' Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:04:15 +0100 From: Kai Jakobs kai.jakobs@comsys.rwth-aachen.de Organization: RWTH Aachen University To: AISWorld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2011 Published: Semi-Annually in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1539-3062 EISSN: 1539-3054 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijitsr
Editor-in-Chief: Kai Jakobs, Aachen University, Germany
GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE
Competing Views of Standards Competition: Response to Egyedi& Koppenhol
Joel West, San José State University, USA Vladislav V. Fomin, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
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PAPER ONE
Interpreting and Enforcing the Voluntary FRAND Commitment
Roger Brooks (Cravath, Swaine& Moore LLP, USA) Damien Geradin (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Athough often debated as though it were public law, a FRAND undertaking is a private contract between a patent-holder and an SSO. Applying ordinary principles of contract interpretation to the case of ETSI IPR policy reveals that "interpretations" of FRAND advocated by some authors-- including cumulative royalty limits, royalties set by counting patents, or a prohibition on capture by the patent-holder of any gains created by standardization--cannot be correct. Rather, a FRAND obligation leaves wide latitude to private parties negotiating a license. However, this does not mean that a FRAND commitment has no substance to be enforced by courts. In this paper, the authors review how, consistent with both contract principles and established judicial method, courts can enforce a contractual obligation to offer licenses on FRAND terms, without becoming IPR price regulators. Similarly, ordinary principles of contract interpretation reveal that the "non-discriminatory" portion of FRAND cannot be interpreted to be coextensive with common "most favored nations" provisions, but instead contemplates substantial latitude for private parties to negotiate terms suited to their particular situations.
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PAPER TWO
An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational and Institutional Factors Shaping the Assimilation of Vertical Standards
Rubén Mendoza (Saint Joseph's University, USA) T. Ravichandran (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Vertical standards describe products and services, define data formats and structures, and formalize and encode business processes for specific industries. Vertical standards enable end-to-end computing, provide greater visibility of the organization's supply chain, and enable transactional efficiencies by automating routine tasks, reducing errors, and formally defining all parameters used to describe a product, service, or transaction. Research on standards diffusion has explored either firm-level and institutional variables, without integration of the two areas. This study develops scales for 11 constructs based on concepts culled from diffusion of innovations theory, organizational learning theories of technology adoption, institutional theory and network effects theory. The scales are validated with data collected from the membership of OASIS, a leading international standards- developing organization for electronic commerce technologies. Using data cluster analysis, relationship patterns between the 11 constructs are investigated. Results show that low fit between vertical standards and existing organizational business processes and data formats, low levels of anticipated benefits, and inadequate momentum with critical business partners contribute to slower vertical standards assimilation. However, organizational involvement with influential standards-development organizations, and the right set of technologies, skills, and structures to readily benefit from vertical standards spur their assimilation.
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PAPER THREE
The INTERNORM Project: Bridging Two Worlds of Expert- and Lay-Knowledge in Standardization
Jean-Christophe Graz (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) Christophe Hauert (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
This paper presents a pilot project to reinforce participatory practices in standardization. The INTERNORM project creates an interactive knowledge center based on the sharing of academic skills and experiences accumulated by the civil society, especially consumer associations, environmental associations and trade unions to strengthen the participatory process of standardization. The first objective of the project is action-oriented: INTERNORM provides a common knowledge pool supporting the participation of civil society actors to international standard-setting activities by bringing them together with academic experts in working groups and providing logistic and financial support to their participation in meetings of national and international technical committees. The second objective is analytical: the standardization action provides a research field for a better understanding of the participatory dynamics underpinning international standardization. This paper presents three incentives that explain civil society (non-)involvement in standardization that overcome conventional resource-based hypotheses: an operational incentive related to the use of standards in the selective goods provided by associations to their membership; a thematic incentive provided by the setting of priorities by strategic committees created in some standardization organization; and a rhetorical incentive related to the discursive resource that civil society concerns offers to the different stakeholders. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/article.aspx?titleid=50574
PAPER FOUR
Standardising the Internet of Things: What the Experts Think
Kai Jakobs (Aachen University, Germany) Thomas Wagner (Aachen University, Germany) Kai Reimers (Aachen University, Germany)
The paper reports findings of a project that aimed at making initial recommendations on how the standards setting processes for the Internet of Things can be adapted to provide for a level playing field for all stakeholders. To this end, the opinions of experts in the field were compiled through a survey and a 'study with Delphi elements'.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IJITSR:
The primary mission of the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR) is to publish research findings to advance knowledge and research in all aspects of IT standards and standardization in modern organizations. IJITSR is considered an authoritative source and information outlet for the diverse community of IT standards researchers. JITSR is targeted towards researchers, scholars, policymakers, IT managers and IT standards associations and organizations.
Coverage of IJITSR:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limite to) the following: Conformity assessment Economics of standardization Emerging roles of formal standards organizations and consortia Intellectual property rights National, regional, international, and corporate standards strategies Open source and standardization Standardization and economic development Standardization and regulation Standardization in public policy Standardization in the public sphere Standards for information infrastructures Technological innovation and standardization Tools and services related to standardization and all other topics related related to the areas of IT standards and standardization research.
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijitsr
All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Kai Jakobs at kai.jakobs@cs.rwth-aachen.de
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Kai Jakobs
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