
Scaffolding the New Web
Standards and Standards Policy for the Digital Economy
RAND (Publisher)
Published on 11. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
123 pages
978-0-8330-2858-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 clearly merits revisiting.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Monica, CA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
glossary, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
209 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8330-2858-7 (9780833028587)
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