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Scaffolding the new web standards and standards policy for the digital economy

With every passing month the digital economy grows stronger and more attractive. Much, perhaps, most of this economy rests upon the Internet and its World Wide Web. They, in turn, rest upon information technology standards. Today's standards appear good enough to see the digital economy through the next few years. But it is unclear how much longer the momentum of such commerce can be sustained absent new standards. Are today's standards processes adequate? Where are they taking the industry (and where is the industry taking them)? Is government intervention required to address systemic failures in their development? To answer these questions, a RAND Science and Technology Policy research team undertook five case studies covering 1. existing Web standards 2. the extensible markup language, XML 3. digital library standards 4. issues related to payments, property, and privacy 5. evolving electronic commerce value chains.

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  • "With every passing month the digital economy grows stronger and more attractive. Much, perhaps, most of this economy rests upon the Internet and its World Wide Web. They, in turn, rest upon information technology standards. Today's standards appear good enough to see the digital economy through the next few years. But it is unclear how much longer the momentum of such commerce can be sustained absent new standards. Are today's standards processes adequate? Where are they taking the industry (and where is the industry taking them)? Is government intervention required to address systemic failures in their development? To answer these questions, a RAND Science and Technology Policy research team undertook five case studies covering 1. existing Web standards 2. the extensible markup language, XML 3. digital library standards 4. issues related to payments, property, and privacy 5. evolving electronic commerce value chains."@en
  • "Although much of the growing digital economy rests on the Internet and World Wide Web, which in turn rest on information technology standards, it is unclear how much longer the current momentum can be sustained absent new standards. To discover whether today's standards processes are adequate, where they are taking the industry, and whether government intervention will be required to address systemic failures in their development, RAND undertook five case studies. So far, it seems, the current standards process remains basically healthy, with various consortia taking up the reins of the process, and the rise of open-source software has also aided vendor-neutral standardization. Nevertheless, the prospects for semantic standards to fulfill XML's promise are uncertain. Can the federal government help? Its policy on software patents clearly merits revisiting. More proactively, the National Institute for Standards and Technology could intensify its traditional functions: developing metrologies; broadening the technology base; and constructing, on neutral ground, terrain maps of the various electronic-commerce standards and standards contenders."@en

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  • "Scaffolding the new web standards and standards policy for the digital economy"@en
  • "Scaffolding the new Web : standards and standards policy for the digital economy"
  • "Scaffolding the new Web standards and standards policy for the digital economy"@en
  • "Scaffolding the new Web standards and standards policy for the digital economy"
  • "Scaffolding the New Web: Standards and Standards Policy for the Digital Economy"@en

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