Comments on: Standards – A Critical Frontier for Research http://gotze.eu/2006/08/06/standards-a-critical-frontier-for-research/ Enterprisey thoughts - John Gøtze Mon, 07 May 2012 21:14:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Gøtze http://gotze.eu/2006/08/06/standards-a-critical-frontier-for-research/comment-page-1/#comment-3181 John Gøtze Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:55:19 +0000 http://gotze.eu/2006/08/standards-a-critical-frontier-for-research.html#comment-3181 John, I caught on using the "ecosystem" concept when I participated in the Open ePolicy Group's work with the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/roadmap.pdf I now use it all the time ... I'm not really sure about the species metaphor, but clearly standard making is at its core a question about community: Those that create the standard constitute a rule-based CoP; memberships are both individual and institutional, lot's of politics. And the interesting thing with standard making is of course that there is a wider ecosystem around the users of standards, where there are also a lot of CoPs. John,

I caught on using the “ecosystem” concept when I participated in the Open ePolicy Group’s work with the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/roadmap.pdf
I now use it all the time …

I’m not really sure about the species metaphor, but clearly standard making is at its core a question about community: Those that create the standard constitute a rule-based CoP; memberships are both individual and institutional, lot’s of politics. And the interesting thing with standard making is of course that there is a wider ecosystem around the users of standards, where there are also a lot of CoPs.

]]> By: John Smith http://gotze.eu/2006/08/06/standards-a-critical-frontier-for-research/comment-page-1/#comment-3178 John Smith Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:38:30 +0000 http://gotze.eu/2006/08/standards-a-critical-frontier-for-research.html#comment-3178 John, I'm interested in the social interactions in that huge standard-setting ecosystem. Is anybody writing about "ecosoystems" and "species" at a more detailed level? For example, using those metaphors, do you think that the species are different kinds of communities of practice, or are they the MEMBERS of communities? John,

I’m interested in the social interactions in that huge standard-setting ecosystem. Is anybody writing about “ecosoystems” and “species” at a more detailed level? For example, using those metaphors, do you think that the species are different kinds of communities of practice, or are they the MEMBERS of communities?

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