Standards “would thwart, not advance, innovation” and “entail crippling delays”  because they are “extremely time consuming, often divisive, and sometimes used by one faction to block the progress of another or to promote its own …

The FCC Video Device Innovation Notice [1] asks one of the most fundamentally central questions to the prospect of not only a viable Broadband Plan for America, but also to the very future of the …

After a lively debate, the IETF appears to be moving forward with a royalty-free audio codec standardization activity.  Here’s to its successful launch and positive outcome.
I’ve put a brief summary at the mpegrf.com site, and …

A “Julius Stonian” observation:  standards groups aren’t “consensus organizations”, they are political organizations. Winners declare their way the “consensus”, and changes in political context shift the “consensus”.
So reflects calls in several slides at yesterday’s Hybrid …

I have filed comments in the UK Project Canvas public consultation.  To catch up on the UK context with global implications, watch James Murdock’s mesmerizing anti-BBC screed, and say…
“This is the BBC.”
Perhaps no other single …

It is very exciting to see the “Open Video” movement taking off and finding voice with the upcoming Open Video Conference.
This well-earned “open breakthrough” has been a long time coming.  After all, open standards, and …

I have filed comments (available here) to the National Broadband Policy Notice of Information (09-51).  Excerpt from the executive summary:
Open standards, and particularly royalty-free standards, are the very foundation of the Open Internet as we …

The “FATT” is fighting back this week in comments filed at the US FCC against the “Coalition United To Terminate Financial Abuses of the Television Transition” (CUT FATT) proposal to address patent overreaching in the …

Royalty-free standards, the very foundation of the Open Internet, are not even mentioned in the FCC’s 60-page Broadband Plan notice of inquiry.
Surprising?  Not really.
Bridging even first principles of the Internet era to the realities of …

Yesterday’s kickoff of the FCC’s Broadband Plan proceedings were broadcast over the Internet in a proprietary video format.
Worse, it was likely converted from a standards-based format to a proprietary format before it was put on …