Chief Technology Officers call for a review of the standardization scenario in Communiqué

.... from October 8 Geneva ITU meeting of high-level, private sector executives to discuss the standardization landscape, identifying and coordinating standards priorities and ways to best meet the needs of the private sector.  (Agenda for October 6 meeting)   (participants at the meeting) 

The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly, meeting in 2008 in Johannesburg, adopted Resolution 68, requesting the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau to organize meetings of high-level, private sector executives to discuss the standardization landscape, identifying and coordinating standards priorities and ways to best meet the needs of the private sector.  The communique from the  October 6 2009  first meeting of chief technology officers stated among among other pronouncements:  ...  the standardization landscape has become too complicated and fragmented, as there are hundreds of industry forums and consortia in addition to national, regional and international SDOs competing for business. It is becoming increasingly more challenging for the ICT industry to identify and prioritize the places to concentrate their standardization resources. Thus, CTOs called for a review of the standardization scenario so as to identify priorities for the industry. Such a review should include: (1) principles on why and what types of standards are needed; (2) identification of the different SDOs, their roles and capabilities; and (3) implementation of improvements to the present standards scenario so that SDOs complement rather than compete with one another. The intent is to focus standards efforts on key standardization organizations and foster faster and more efficient production of standards, so as to avoid duplication across organizations and improve speed of development and time to market.