

They should have more obligations as well. Those who make available their IP to a technical specification declared standard by an official standards body have additional benefits compared to those who do not.Technology innovation is well rewarded by a system that identifies, determines and protects intellectual property (IP).Those who have created a new intellectual object have to right to exploit it.The passing away of MPEG is another hurdle added to a big hurdle on which I have published several articles: A crisis, the causes and a solution, Can MPEG overcome its Video “crisis”?, Business model based ISO/IEC standards, and IP counting or revenue counting?Īfter publishing those articles, I was forced to silence, but now it is time to speak again, this time loud and clear. Godspeed, when someone will need to put the pieces together.
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Now, ISO media standards are treated separately.

The radical innovation of putting in one committee all media components, copied by most standards bodies and companies, is gone. 1.5 T$, and affecting the daily lives of billions of people is now reduced to splinters. What used to be the reference standards group driving close to 2% of the Gross World Product, i.e. The causes have partly to do with the nature of ISO whose main feature I describe in This is ISO – A feudal organisation. The agony was long, but the result was predictable. But there is a big news: MPEG passed away on 2T16:30 CEST. My plan this week was to talk about the prospects of MPEG for the next few years.
