THE SIX DIMENSIONS OF STANDARDS: CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A THEORY OF STANDARDIZATION

摘要

This paper proposes a framework that standards development organizations, commercial organizations, and individuals can use to plan their standard strategy. First, we review the different approaches to multimedia communications to understand how this could affect standardization. Then we identify the range of stakeholders from standards creators to standards seekers. We then present the framework for standardization in terms of answers to six questions: Why? What? When? Which? How? and Where?