Institute for National Strategic Studies


STANDARDS: THE ROUGH ROAD TO THE COMMON BYTE

MARTIN LIBICKI

NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY

ACIS Paper 1

May 1995


A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

JAMES MADISON to W. T. BARRY

August 4, 1822


Contents

Copyright, Acknowledgements and Note

Executive Summary

What Standards Do

The Open Road

Front Line Manufacturing

To the Gigabit Station

Lessons and Prognostications

Acronyms


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