CONFERENCE THEME

• impact of standards
• problems of implementation and diffusion
• conformity assessment, testing and certification
• compatibility & open source developments
• flexibility
• innovation
• intellectual property rights
• contemporary and historical cases of formal and consortium standardization
• public-private sphere issues
• competing compatibility strategies

• standards use in a regulatory setting
• corporate standards strategies
• network externalities
• standards cultures
• policy context of standardization
• competing regional and international regimes
• analyses of standards research and education activities

Suggestions for additional topics are most welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES

2 May 2005--Deadline for paper submissions
1 June 2005--Notification of authors
15 August 2005 --Deadline for final (camera-ready) papers

PAPER REVIEW AND ACCEPTANCE

Significant and original (unpublished) submissions are solicited and will undergo a double blind peer-review process. Full papers should not exceed 6,000 words and include an abstract of 100 -150 words. You will find the submission guidelines here, Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR:

Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

LOCAL CHAIR: Simão Campos Neto, ITU-T
Elaine Baskin  (webmaster)
Kai Jakobs (SIIT secretariat)

INT. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Kai Jakobs, Aachen University
Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft (chair progr.committee)
Ken Krechmer, ICSR
Timothy Schoechle, ICSR
Mostafa Hashem Sherif, AT&T

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Tineke Egyedi, TU Delft, Netherlands
Dave Allen, Collab CPR, US
Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, US
Marc Berg, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
Paolo Bellavista, Bologna U., IT
Knut Blind, Fraunhofer Institute, DE
Randy Bloomfield, Consultant, US
Francoise Bousquet, Akela, FR
Nils Brunsson, Stockh. School of Econ., SE
Peter Buxmann, U. of Darmstadt, DE
Yves Chauvel, ETSI, FR
Antonio Corradi, Bologna U., IT
Mahmoud F. Daneshmand, AT&T, US
Vlad Fomin, Copenhagen Business School, DK
Linda Garcia, Georgetown U., US
Mark Gaynor, Harvard U., US
Ole Hanseth, U. of Oslo, NO
John Hill, SUN, US
John Hudson, U. of Bath, UK
Eric Iversen, NIFU STEP, NO
Kai Jakobs, Aachen U., DE
Ken Krechmer, ICSR, US
Dirk Kuhlmann, HP, UK
Gary Lea, U. of New South Wales, AU
Mark Lemley, Stanford U., US
Martin Libicki, RAND Corp., US
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve U., US
Roger Marks, NIST, US
Deependra Moitra, Infosys, IN
Eric Monteiro, Norwegian U. of Sci. & Techn., NO
Fahad Najam, AT&T, US
Don Purcell, Catholic U., US
Roy Rada, U. of Maryland, US
Kai Reimers, Aachen U., DE
Tarek Saadawi, City U. of New York, US
Tim Schoechle, U. of Colorado, US
Michael Spring, U. of Pittsburgh, US
Jan Smits, Technical U. of Eindhoven, NL
Kees Stuurman, U. Tilburg, NL
Klaus Turowski, U. of Augsburg, DE
Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, US
Umit Uyar, CUNY, US
Taavi Valdlo, Estonian Informatics Centre, EE
Henk de Vries, Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL
Willem Wakker, ACE, NL
Marc van Wegberg, U. of Maastricht, NL
Juergen Wehnert, BMT Transport Solutions, DE
Joel West, San Jose State U., US

ADVISORY BOARD

Koichi Asatani, Dean, Kogakuin Univ., JP
Jan van den Beld, Secretary General of ECMA, CH (tbc)
Scott Bradner, Internet Society's VP for Standards, US (tbc)
Sherrie Bolin, The Bolin Group, US (tbc)
Jim Carlo, President, IEEE-SA, US
Don Clark, BT, UK
William Kelly, Catholic University of America, US
John Ketchell, Director CEN/ISSS, BE
Helmut Schink, VP System Engineering, Siemens, DE
Oliver Smoot, President, ISO, CH
Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer & Updegrove, US
Evangelos Vardakas, Director, Eur. Commission, BE (tbc)
Houlin Zhao, Director TSB, ITU, CH

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