Standards making is increasingly important as technologies change...
Standards making is increasingly important as technologies change and businesses face more competition, SBC Pres. William Daley said in speech at World Standards Day dinner last week. “With the increasing pace of new technologies, it’s critically important for the…
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standards process to keep up,” he said. “When the average shelf life of some new high-tech products is as little as 6 months, businesses don’t have time to pause and wait.” Daley said SBC was working with others in telecom business to develop more-streamlined standards process, which has “become even more important with the increasing competition in our industry and the increasing number of new networks and technologies.” He said industry was working with Alliance for Telecom Industry Solutions (ATIS) to develop priorities so investment went to issues most important to industry. Communications companies want to set priorities that “eliminate overlap and duplication” of standards efforts, he said: “Too many standards can basically mean no effective standards.” ATIS Pres. Susan Miller told group that “traditional approaches to standards development must move to a new paradigm.” Daley received Ronald Brown Award for leadership in U.S. standardization efforts.