1. SAB Vice Chair’s Report
June, 2006

2. Policies & Procedures
The SAB P&P’s for acting as a sponsor were accepted at the June meeting of AudCom
The IEEE Standards Board passed a resolution requiring that the only copy of Sponsor P&P’s designated as “official” be on the IEEE AudCom site. This may require a change in the site.

3. Intellectual Property Rights Update
IEEE Standards Board focus is on patents.
Claudio Stanziola has approved wording for SISO-SAC (defer to SISO-SAC report)
General issue of IP rights is tied to IEEE-SA business models which are in flux
Remains an issue – not focus of this report

4. Future of Volunteer Consensus Standards Personal Observations and Recommendations
The future of standardization will be affected by:
Changes in intellectual property rights and laws
Globalization
The Internet
Shifting business models for standardization
Next series of slides provides a context for this (from a presentation given in February at the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative’s “International Plugfest II”)

5. Why Bother With Standards?
INNOVATION
Standards define and catalyze new technology
Standards enable new solutions
Standards solve existing problems

6. Why Bother With Standards?
HELP THE CONSUMER
Standards prevent lock-in
Standards accelerate commoditization
Standards increase reliability
Standards enable competition

7. Why Bother With Standards?
BUILD MARKETS
Standards can lower design, development and production costs
Standards help modularize supply chains
Standards build consumer confidence
Standardization distributes effort

8. Who participates Researchers Academics Corporate strategists
INNOVATION
HELP THE CONSUMER
BUILD MARKETS
Researchers
Academics
Corporate strategists

9. Who participates Government Agencies Consumer Groups
INNOVATION
HELP THE CONSUMER
BUILD MARKETS
Government Agencies
Consumer Groups
Companies looking for specific competitive advantages

10. Who participates Commercial enterprises Industry groups INOVATION
HELP THE CONSUMER
BUILD MARKETS
Commercial enterprises
Industry groups

11. When Does Standardization Occur?
INOVATION
HELP THE CONSUMER
BUILD MARKETS
Market moves from underserved to overserved*
* Clayton M Christensen & Michael E Raynor, (2003). The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Need arises in an influential community

12. Observation INOVATION HELP THE CONSUMER BUILD MARKETS
Individual Balloting
Entity Balloting
Post development
Funding
Pre-development
Funding

13. From the “Disruptive Technology” Perspective:
INOVATION
HELP THE CONSUMER
BUILD MARKETS
Emphasis on entity balloting and up-front funding drives standards further up the value chain. The innovation side is being replaced by ad-hoc community-based “standards.”

14. What do Globalization and the Internet mean for us?
Globalization of supply chains is a standardization driver
Globalization and disintermediation of information is affecting business models
Globalization requires “globally friendly” processes
The traditional participants in early-stage standardization are forming virtual communities and working virtually

15. Recommendation
(Golden) opportunity exists for creating a voluntary consensus standardization process that is
Easily used and accessed
Internet-based
Localizable (and uses a process that supports international participation)
Secure
Ethically rigorous
Economically viable
Affordable
Strongly branded
This should play prominently in the SAB agenda