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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click on "Preface." 
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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.
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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

RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
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Fax:  +49-241-80-22220
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