IEEE Standards Association held its first annual Symposium on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Interoperability in Santa Clara, California on October 24th. The one day session featured distinguished guests and speakers from IEEE-SA, Accellera, ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys and TSMC NA. Dr. Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director of IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and Hillel Miller, […]

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This week, the Computer & Communication Industry Assocation (CCIA) publicly endorsed OpenStand. The CCIA is an international non-for-profit membership-driven organization dedicated to innovation and enhancing society’s access to information and communications Here is an excerpt from their statement: “The Computer & Communications Industry Association has supported open standards since organizing a meeting among leading tech […]

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The following release was issued today by the IEEE Standards Assocation. This release really underscores the importance of open standards and open technology development – principles upon which OpenStand was founded. On the observation of World Standards Day, now is an opportune moment to denote the importance of open standardization processes and the principles of […]

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On 29 August 2012, the leaders of IAB, the IEEE Standards Association, the Internet Society, and the W3C signed a statement affirming the importance of a set of principles for the development of global, open standards. These principles have become known as the “OpenStand” principles.  A year later, in the face allegations of interference by some governments in the standards development process, […]

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Today, we celebrate World Standards Day by standing with the global technology development community in support of open standards development principles.     This year’s theme, “Standards for a World at Work and Play”, focuses on how standards benefit businesses, governments, and humanity by helping create technologies that are more: – Performant – Efficient – […]

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This week marks the celebration of the 2013 World Standards Week.  World Standards Week is dedicated to raising global awareness of the importance of global standardization to the world economy and to promote its role in helping meet the needs of business, industry, government and consumers worldwide.  The week includes World Standards Day on October […]

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Next week, the discussion around the future of innovation moves to Europe during Knowledge4Innovation’s (K4I) 5th European Innovation Summit. The Summit will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels from September 30th to October 3rd. K4I writes, “The 5th European Innovation Summit will not only focus on the implementation of the new instruments, but also seek […]

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Cisco is a corporation that has demonstrated early and unflagging support for OpenStand. In November of 2012, Cisco’s Monique Morrow, CTO of the Services Platform Group, formally endorsed OpenStand at the ITU-T in Dubai.  Her endorsement and thoughts on OpenStand can be found here.  She also mentions her support of OpenStand in this video. [fve]http://youtu.be/ka75t8LuMYE[/fve] […]

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We’re seeing incredible global dialogue about the global need for open technology development methodologies and open standards. In this interview video, Forbes staff J.J. Colao interviews Web Inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Tim Berners-Lee, and IEEE Standards Association President, Karen Bartleson. Together, Tim and Karen provide some very practical insight […]

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By Russ Housley, Internet Engineering Task Force chair, and Steve Mills, IEEE Standards Association president One of the hallmarks of the OpenStand principles is respectful cooperation among standards organizations, whereby each organization respects the autonomy, integrity, processes and intellectual property rules of the others, and the reason is simple: There is no value—for companies, for […]

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