ABSTRACT
This chapter was contributed by Carl Cargill, Director of Standards with Sun Microsystems and formerly standards strategist for Sun, Digital, and Netscape. His expertise focuses on standards development by consortia and alliances, rather than either de facto standards created by the marketplace or the traditional standards-development route. Examples include the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This approach is a more pointed argument for consortia than, for example, that described by C. Ronald Simpkins for the chemical process industries in Chapter 19. Carl Cargill is author of Information Technology Standardization and an expert on information technology standardization and a proponent of the consortia standards process.
