scholarly journals Automating Interoperability Testing to Improve Open Standards for the Internet

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Marten Seemann ◽  
Jana Iyengar
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Interoperability Testing ◽  
Open Standards

In Pursuit of Interoperability

2011 ◽  
pp. 321-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Moseley ◽  
Steve Randall ◽  
Anthony Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Technical Committee ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Testing Methodology ◽  
Writing Test ◽  
Test Specifications ◽  
Interoperability Testing ◽  
Competence Centre

Traditionally, conformance testing has been the domain of the telecommunications industry, while interoperability testing has mainly been limited to the Internet world. Many see these as either/or solutions, ignoring the fact that recent experience shows that both approaches have their strengths when used wisely. This paper discusses the merits and shortcomings of each approach and shows how they can usefully be combined to maximise the effectiveness of the testing process. This is especially relevant where testing is being treated as a potential branding issue by various fora. This paper is based on many years of practical experience of writing test specifications at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). It presents ETSI standardisation activities on testing, including the development of a generic interoperability testing methodology and the work being done by the Technical Committee Methods for Testing and Specification (MTS), the ETSI Protocol and Testing Competence Centre (PTCC), and the ETSI PlugtestsTM service.

Safety and Security beyond Industry 4.0

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Data Security ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Power Grids ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Functional Safety ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Security Standards ◽  
Levels Of Integration

As open standards like OPC UA were introduced to facilitate the interoperability of devices, safety and security standards were only gradually incorporated into Industry 4.0 designs. Hence, safety and security issues have eventually emerged with the growing complexity of such systems, and they need to expand outside of their premises to be integrated into larger set-ups. Typical examples thereof are power grids, whose dependability was guarded for long times by strict rules and restrictive communication protocols. Once they were exposed on the Internet, however, their vulnerability has increased to a point where their safety could be compromised. Hence, there is an urgent need to implement effective safety and security mechanisms into OPC UA to provide systems with appropriate levels of functional safety as well as data security. With increasing levels of integration, e.g. with Industry 5.0, these standards need to evolve to provide for sustainability in a globally interconnected world.

scholarly journals Open Standards Requirements

2011 ◽  
pp. 27-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Krechmer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computer ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Material Interest ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Open Standards

An open society, if it utilizes communications systems, requires open standards. The personal-computer revolution and the Internet have resulted in a vast new wave of Internet users. These new users have a material interest in the technical standards that proscribe their communications. These new users make new demands on the standardization processes, often with the rallying cry, “Open standards.” As is often the case, a rallying cry means many different things to different people. This chapter explores the different requirements suggested by the term open standards. Perhaps when everyone agrees on what requirements open standards serve, it will be possible to achieve them and maintain the open society many crave.

India, the ‘Swing State’

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Kieron O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Integrated Services ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Large Contribution ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
World Class ◽  
Internet Penetration ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Indian Data

If India’s population and Internet penetration grow at current rates, it will make a large contribution to the growth of the Internet. It has a world-class technology establishment. The chapter considers several possible policy directions. Openness is looked at through experiments in Andhra Pradesh to provide digital government. The attempt by Jio Platforms to provide integrated services for mobile users exemplifies the Commercial Internet. The influence of the Modi government’s Hindutva ideology is considered in a discussion of paternalism, together with the Aadhaar ID platform, and the Indian Data Protection Bill. There is a lot of misinformation and conspiracy theory in India, but it has not created a spoiler model to export misinformation to other countries. Finally, the export of ID technology using open source software and open standards is considered as a potential future Indian influence on the global Internet.

scholarly journals Open Standards Requirements

2011 ◽  
pp. 49-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Krechmer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computer ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Material Interest ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Open Standards

An open society, if it utilizes communications systems, requires open standards. The personal computer revolution and the Internet have resulted in a vast new wave of Internet users. These new users have a material interest in the technical standards that proscribe their communications. These new users make new demands on the standardization processes, often with the rallying cry, “open standards.” As is often the case, a rallying cry means many different things to different people. This article explores the different requirements suggested by the term open standards. Perhaps when everyone agrees on what requirements open standards serve, it will be possible to achieve them and maintain the open society that many crave

Interoperability Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-160
Author(s):  
Laura DeNardis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Lower Energy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Current State ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Technical Standardization ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This chapter assesses how technical standardization faces unique challenges. Embedded objects require high security but are also constrained architectures that demand lower energy consumption and restricted processing power. The current state of interoperability is fragmented, heterogeneous, complex, and involving multiple competing standards and an expanding base of standards-setting organizations. Unlike traditional communication systems that require universality, fragmentation by sector might actually have beneficial effects, such as serving as a de facto security boundary. The chapter then explains the evolution of fragmented standards in the Internet of things space but suggests that open standards and interoperability in the underlying common infrastructure are still vital for accountability, innovation, and stability.

scholarly journals Strategic architecture as a concept towards explaining the variation in performance of networked era firms

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
G. M. Mansfield ◽  
L. C.H. Fourie ◽  
W. R. Gevers
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strategic Intent ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Customer Centricity

In a previous article the authors suggested for networked era firms that latent performance benefits could be found at the confluence of strategy and business models. They argued that the internet and its open standards created an environment making new demands on business that transcend traditional boundaries and call for new patterns of management behaviour.Using these concepts as a starting point, this article develops a construct, strategic architecture, posited as a fundamental, pervasive business phenomenon characterising successful ventures.Finding strategic intent underpinning strategy and value-creation driving business models, the additional dimensions of dynamic pliancy and harmony are developed. The article concludes with a synopsis of the other literature-based dimensions of the strategic architecture construct which are posited as futurity, customer centricity, market exploitability, economic innovativeness, interjacency, digital spontaneity and scalability, knowledge management, innovative aggressiveness and equivocality.

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