Bibliographic Resources on Standards and the Public Interest

The following are sources providing background information on standards development (both in the technical and non-technical realm):

Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.

Besen, Stanley, and Garth Saloner. "The Economics of Telecommunications Standards," in Crandall, Robert W., and Kenneth Flamm (eds.) Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1989. p. 177-121.

Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone, 1996.

Kahin, Brian, and Janet Abbate, eds. Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.

Katz, Michael J., and Carl Shapiro. "Network Externalities, Competition, and Compatibility." The American Economic Review 75(3) (June 1985), pp. 424-440.

Loya, Thomas A., and John Boli. "Standardization in the World Polity: Technical Rationality over Power," in Boli, John, and George M. Thomas (eds.), Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Olsen, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. 1971

U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Global Standards: Building Blocks for the Future. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992.

The following are sources dealing with the public policy implications of technical standards:

Clark, David, and Marjory Blumenthal. "Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-End Arguments vs. the Brave New World." August 2000. Available at <http://www.tprc.org/abstracts00/rethinking.pdf>.

NGO and Academic ICANN Study. ICANN, Legitimacy, and the Public Voice: Making Global Participation and Representation Work. Washington, DC: NAIS, 2000. Available at <http://www.naisproject.org/report/final/>.

Lessig, Lawrence, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Pool, Ithiel de Sola. Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Saltzer, R.H. D.P. Reed and D.D. Clark. End-to-End Arguments in System Design.1981. Available at <http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf>.

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