The Reality of International Standardization

Technical Controversy in International Standardization

The development of larger technical systems relies on the coordination of autonomous action of a multitude of individuals and organizations. Institutional settings, often neglected in the analysis of technical development, help to achieve such coordination. Our analysis of international technical standardization in telecommunications highlights an institutionalized process aiming at the creatio...

International Standardization Activities on Optical Interfaces Global Standardization Activities

This article reviews international standardization activities on optical interfaces over the last four years. Standardization is the key to the cost-effective manufacture, purchase, and installation of largecapacity high-speed optical network elements. This article mainly focuses on the activities related to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) interfaces in ITU-T (International Telecommunica...

Impact of the International Standardization of SAR Compliance Testing

Worldwide harmonization of SAR compliance testing methodologies have led to changes from previously used procedure and equipment. This study focuses on the impact of the introduction of the Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM) phantom, different dielectric properties of the tissue simulating liquid, and the 15 degree tilt device position on SAR measurement. The assessment was performed usin...

International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector

This contribution proposes for Recommendation G.812 (1) a holdover specification for Clock Type II that is consistent with the current specification of 10 per day and is not broken into aging, temperature, and initial offset components and (2) a modification to the output wander TDEV mask, to apply only to Types II and III, to make the mask consistent with the respective wander generation TDEV ...

International committee for standardization in haematology.