Scaffolding the New Web: Standards and Standards Policy for the Digital Economy

by Anna Slomovic, James Schneider, Martin C. Libicki

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0833028588
• ISBN13: 9780833028587
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"