E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Web PDF
Libicki Information Technology Standards
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-9248-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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Quest for the Common Byte
E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Web PDF
ISBN: 978-1-4832-9248-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book examines information technology standards and discusses what they are, what they do, how they originate, and how they evolve. While standards are important in improving system interoperability and thereby increasing economic productivity, they are unlikely to achieve their full potential due to a variety of factors, chief of which is the politics of the standard process itself. Libicki points out that the government is not likely the best source for designing and promoting standards. He does an excellent job of breaking down many complex technical issues and presenting them in a fashion that technical people can enjoy and policy makers can understand.
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1;Front Cover;1
2;Information Technology Standards: Quest for the Common Byte;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Note;6
6;List of Illustrations;12
7;Foreword;14
8;Program on Information Resources Policy;16
9;Preface;18
10;Acknowledgments;24
11;Part I: Introduction;26
11.1;Chapter 1. What Standards Do;28
11.1.1;1.1 Why Standards?;29
11.1.2;1.2 What Standards Are Good For;32
11.1.3;1.3 Standards Have Their Drawba;37
11.1.4;1.4 What Makes a Good Standard?;39
11.1.5;1.5 What Makes a Successful Standard?;43
11.1.6;1.6 The Government and the Public Interest;48
11.1.7;1.7 Broader Ramifications of Standards;51
11.1.8;1.8 Conclusion;55
12;Part II: Foundations for Open Systems;62
12.1;Chapter 2. The Open Road;64
12.1.1;2.1 The Impetus for Open;64
12.1.2;2.2 Versions of Open;65
12.1.3;2.3 Coda;70
12.2;Chapter 3. UNIX;72
12.2.1;3.1 The Birth and Growth of UNIX;73
12.2.2;3.2 The UNIX Market Matures;75
12.2.3;3.3 The Federal Role;77
12.2.4;3.4 Why Standardize UNIX?;78
12.2.5;3.5 X-Windows;81
12.2.6;3.6 The Battles over Standards;84
12.2.7;3.7 Alternatives to UNIX;90
12.2.8;3.8 Windows NT (New Technology);92
12.2.9;3.9 Conclusion;94
12.3;Chapter 4. OSI;100
12.3.1;4.1 The OSI Reference Model;101
12.3.2;4.2 OSI Standards;103
12.3.3;4.3 The Path to Open Standards;112
12.3.4;4.4 The Profiles;119
12.3.5;4.5 Whither OSI?;125
12.3.6;4.6 OSI Redux: Network Management and Routing;139
12.3.7;4.7 Conclusion;143
13;Part III: Defense-Promoted Standards;156
13.1;Chapter 5. Front-Line Manufacturing;158
13.1.1;5.1 Navy's CAD II Purchase;162
13.2;Chapter 6. CALS;166
13.2.1;6.1 The Impetus for CALS;167
13.2.2;6.2 The Origin of CALS;168
13.2.3;6.3 Group 4 Raster;171
13.2.4;6.4 Computer Graphics Metafile;174
13.2.5;6.5 IGES;175
13.2.6;6.6 STEP;183
13.2.7;6.7 Beyond CALS;188
13.2.8;6.8 EDI;191
13.2.9;6.9 Conclusion;197
13.3;Chapter 7. The Ada Programming Language;204
13.3.1;7.1 Perfect Computer Languages: A Story;205
13.3.2;7.2 A Thumbnail History of Computer Languages;206
13.3.3;7.3 The Impetus for Ada;211
13.3.4;7.4 Evaluating Ada;214
13.3.5;7.5 Why Ada Is Not a Programmers' Language;216
13.3.6;7.6 Ada in Business Applications;219
13.3.7;7.7 OOPS;221
13.3.8;7.8 Ada9X;225
13.3.9;7.9 Conclusion;227
14;Part IV: High-Bandwidth Public Communications;236
14.1;Chapter 8. To the Gigabit Station;238
14.1.1;8.1 Public Policy;239
14.1.2;8.2 Of Bits and Bandwidth;240
14.1.3;8.3 Summary;243
14.2;Chapter 9. ISDN: Narrow and Broad;246
14.2.1;9.1 The Promise of ISDN;247
14.2.2;9.2 ISDN History;253
14.2.3;9.3 Standards;257
14.2.4;9.4 No Support from Federal Policy;259
14.2.5;9.5 The Road Not Taken;261
14.2.6;9.6 A Transition to Broadband;264
14.2.7;9.7 Wide Area Networking;266
14.2.8;9.8 ATM;272
14.2.9;9.9 The Once and Future Internet;275
14.2.10;9.10 Conclusion;281
14.3;Chapter 10. A Congress of Libraries;290
14.3.1;10.1 Compound Documents;291
14.3.2;10.2 Hypertext;299
14.3.3;10.3 SQL;306
14.3.4;10.4 Advanced Queries;311
14.3.5;10.5 Standards for Image Compression;313
14.3.6;10.6 Conclusion;326
15;Part V: Toward the Common Byte;336
15.1;Chapter 11. Some Limits of Standards Policy;338
15.1.1;11.1 Cryptography;338
15.1.2;11.2 VHDL;342
15.1.3;11.3 NGC;345
15.1.4;11.4 SDTS;347
15.1.5;11.5 TRON: The Real-Time Operating Nucleus;349
15.1.6;11.6 Conclusion;351
15.2;Chapter 12. The Future of Standards;356
15.2.1;12.1 Neither Open Nor Closed;356
15.2.2;12.2 Middleware;360
15.2.3;12.3 Whither Interoperability?;364
15.2.4;12.4 Global Integration;366
15.2.5;12.5 Conclusion;369
15.3;Chapter 13. So Many Standards, So Little Time;372
15.3.1;13.1 The Search for the Common Byte;372
15.3.2;13.2 What Works?;382
15.3.3;13.3 Standards as Public Policy;383
15.3.4;13.4 NIl;385
16;Appendixes;388
16.1;A Computers and Communications: A Tutorial;390
16.2;B Chronologies;398
17;Abbreviations and Acronyms;404
18;Index;414
