LIve from Atlanta

Yawn...

Ahh...standards meetings. 1000+ engineers in a room at the 802 meetings in Atlanta GA discussing if they should use the word "Primary" or "initial" for 30 minutes. 802.16e is nearing clean up mode, 802.20 is apparently still moribund, 802.22 is just getting moving.

There are a few well known standards groups:

IEEE - A group of individuals who participate in a non-exclusionary basis to develop a wide range of standards..examples include 802.3 (ethernet) and 802.11 (wifi). In this group, the vote in the committees goes with the individual, not the organization they represent.

3GPP - The group that brought you GSM (under the ETSI name)

IETF - the group that creates the internet standards.

A question raised frequently is - which is the best way to create a standard?

the answer is left to the reader..