Scaffolding the new Web : standards and standards policy for the digital economy / Martin Libicki ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Libicki, Martin C.

United States. Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Science and Technology Policy Institute (Rand Corporation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web sites--Standards.

Web sites.

Electronic commerce--Standards.

Electronic commerce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The dynamic digital economy rests on the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web, which in turn rests on information technology standards. This study makes recommendations on how government can contribute to the future growth of the digital economy.

Contents:

""PREFACE""; ""FIGURES AND TABLES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE PLACE OF STANDARDS""; ""WHAT MAKES A STANDARD STANDARD?""; ""THE POTENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF STANDARDS""; ""LESSONS FROM FIVE CASE STUDIES""; ""STANDARDS FOSTER OPENNESS""; ""BUT STANDARDS HAVE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, BOTH TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL, TO SUCCEED""; ""THE INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB HAVE SHIFTED THE FOCUS OF INTEROPERABILITY""; ""LIGHT STANDARDS CONTINUE TO DO BETTER""; ""BUT THE ENCAPSULATION OF THE REAL WORLD INTO STANDARD SEMANTICS IS LIKELY TO BE DIFFICULT""

""THE EMERGING CHALLENGE OF COMMON SEMANTICS""""LET THE MARKET DECIDE""; ""HAVE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES EACH DECIDE""; ""ASSUME INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE WILL MEDIATE AMONG VARIOUS VOCABULARIES""; ""DEVELOP STANDARD ONTOLOGIES INTO WHICH STANDARD TERMS ARE MAPPED""; ""CONCENTRATE ON THE KEY WORDS""; ""CODA""; ""STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS""; ""THE IETF""; ""ISO, ITU, AND ECMA""; ""THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C)""; ""THE WIRELESS ACCESS PROTOCOL (WAP) FORUM""; ""OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE""; ""A TYPOLOGY""; ""THE PLACE OF STANDARDS""; ""THE PATENT TRAP""; ""STANDARDS AS A POLICY TOOL""

""NISTÃŒS EVOLVING ROLE""""FOR FURTHER RESEARCH""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""THE WEB AS WE KNOW IT""; ""HTML: THE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE""; ""HYPERTEXT BEFORE THE WEB""; ""The World Wide Web Is Born""; ""And Then the Browser Wars Began""; ""JAVA""; ""The Java Strategy""; ""Java's Formal Standardization""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""THE EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE""; ""XML AS A MARKUP LANGUAGE""; ""GETTING TO XML""; ""XML AND E-COMMERCE""; ""WHAT THE WORDS MEAN""; ""MANAGING PROLIFERATION""; ""XML AS A STANDARDS ABSORBENT""; ""HOW XML MAY FAIL""; ""Other Standards for E-Commerce May Arise""

""Too Much Capital May Have Been Sunk into Today's X12- and EDIFACT- Based EDI""""XML Is Still Too Complex""; ""It May Get Caught in the Browser Wars""; ""It May Get Caught in the Java Wars""; ""Sellers May Not Like Friction-Free Capitalism""; ""Trust, Not Standards, May Be the Problem""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES""; ""THE CRISIS IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING""; ""THE WAY OF THE LIBRARIAN""; ""THE SEARCH FOR STRUCTURE""; ""TAGGING INFORMATION WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""CODA""; ""PAYMENTS, PROPERTY, AND PRIVACY""; ""PAYMENTS AND PROPERTY""

""Secure Electronic Transactions (SET)""""Digital Cash and Micropayments""; ""The Secure Digital Music Initiative""; ""Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)""; ""Cryptographic Codes""; ""Cryptographic Procedures""; ""PRIVACY""; ""Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)""; ""TRUSTe""; ""EU Directive on Data Protection""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""STANDARDS AND THE FUTURE VALUE CHAIN""; ""AGENTS AND BOTS""; ""STANDARDS""; ""ON THE MEANING OF""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""

Notes:

"Prepared for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Science and Technology Policy Institute."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-123).

ISBN:

0-8330-4373-0

OCLC:

70764675