規格のダイナミクス The Dynamics of Standards

Egyedi, Tineke M. (EDT)/ Blind, Knut (EDT)

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd（2008/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781847204868
• DDC分類 004.0218

基本説明

Society is highly dependent on standards for everything from paper format to Internet (IP), but what happens if these standards change? This book focuses on the field of IT and telecommunications where the result of changing standards can create significant compatibility problems for users.

Full Description

This book addresses the new field of standards dynamics. It focuses in particular on the tension between standards and change. Standards are points of reference and should therefore be inherently stable (at least to a certain degree). However, technologies change at an increasing pace, particularly in the field of information technology (IT). This requires the development of more standards and more updates, and leads to increased competition between standards. In many situations problems arise, such as how to retain compatibility if standards keep on changing and whether to adopt the new version. If standards are related, how does changing one standard affect the others? The contributing authors gathered here analyse the causes and scale of change in order to demonstrate how to prevent, reduce and cope with its negative impact.Addressing a number of highly up-to-date issues including the sustainability of documents and data, this book will be of great interest to those concerned with innovation, management of technology and the emerging field of standardization studies. In addition, standard-setting organizations and policymakers should be aware of the ambivalence of standards dynamics.

Contents

Contents:

Foreword

1. General Introduction
Tineke M. Egyedi and Knut Blind

PART I: THE PROBLEM OF CHANGING STANDARDS
2. The Sustainability of Digital Data: Tension Between the Dynamics and Longevity of Standards
Kees van der Meer

3. An Implementation Perspective on Sources of Incompatibility and Standards' Dynamics
Tineke M. Egyedi

PART II: CAUSES OF CHANGE
4. + vs -: Dynamics and Effects of Competing Standards of Recordable DVD-Media
Stephan Gauch

5. Internet Addressing Standards: A Case Study in Standards Dynamics Driven by Bottom-Up Adoption
Jos Vrancken, Marnix Kaart and Michel Soares

6. Incompatible Successors: The Failure to Graft XML onto SGML
Tineke M. Egyedi and Arjan Loeffen

PART III: CHANGE IN AN IMPLEMENTATION CONTEXT
7. The IEEE 802.11 WLAN Installation at RWTH Aachen University: A Case of Voluntary Vendor Lock-In
Kai Jakobs

8. A Case Study of the Adoption and Implementation of STEP
Josephine W. Thomas, Steve Probets, Ray Dawson and Tim King

PART IV: SCALE OF CHANGE
9. How Stable are IT Standards?
Tineke M. Egyedi and Petra Heijnen

10. Factors Influencing the Lifetime of Telecommunication and Information Technology Standards
Knut Blind

PART V: CONCLUSION
11. Conclusion
Tineke M. Egyedi

Bibliography

Index