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I don’t understand why a consortium would need a lot of funding if all it is doing is standardizing something that private companies have put together.

by nynx 4y ago

ChrisLomont 4y ago
> all it is doing You mean hold meetings for perhaps hundreds of people many times a year, provide marketing, provide offices and a point of contact for those interested in the standard, hire lawyers to work on legal issues, hire editors to make standards well written, entice companies to join your standard as opposed to competing standards consortiums via using sales people to visit them, handle mailing lists, trackers, review cycles, secretarial staff, janitorial staff, renting collaborate workspaces for meetings, and on and on..... >that private companies have put together I think you have misunderstood the process. No single company usually makes such a standard, otherwise there would be no consortium. You want a consortium to be a mostly separate group that obtains input from companies to make a standard. Companies send members to sit in on meetings to craft or guide or merely be aware of how the standard is evolving over time so the company can gain some benefit. Simply google how to start a technical consortium to find some of the issues, things you'd need to do, and ways to get it all paid for. Take SMPTE, for example, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, which creates video standards among other things. They've published over 800 standards since founding in 1916. Check out their website https://www.smpte.org/ https://www.smpte.org/ They have global outreach, including education functions. Their staff page shows the major staff and functions - those people require offices and support staff. They provide market matching to connect groups to each other to further their standards - this takes effort and people. They have offices in many countries around the world..... Also in this space are the standardization consortiums ATSC, MPEG, JPEG, CCIR, CCITT, and a few others. So these are not simply copy and paste operations. Making a good standard and getting the market to adopt it is a lot of work.

I don’t understand why a consortium would need a lot of funding if all it is doing is standardizing something that private companies have put together.

by nynx 4y ago

I don’t understand why a consortium would need a lot of funding if all it is doing is standardizing something that private companies have put together.

ChrisLomont 4y ago

> all it is doing You mean hold meetings for perhaps hundreds of people many times a year, provide marketing, provide offices and a point of contact for those interested in the standard, hire lawyers to work on legal issues, hire editors to make standards well written, entice companies to join your standard as opposed to competing standards consortiums via using sales people to visit them, handle mailing lists, trackers, review cycles, secretarial staff, janitorial staff, renting collaborate workspaces for meetings, and on and on..... >that private companies have put together I think you have misunderstood the process. No single company usually makes such a standard, otherwise there would be no consortium. You want a consortium to be a mostly separate group that obtains input from companies to make a standard. Companies send members to sit in on meetings to craft or guide or merely be aware of how the standard is evolving over time so the company can gain some benefit. Simply google how to start a technical consortium to find some of the issues, things you'd need to do, and ways to get it all paid for. Take SMPTE, for example, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, which creates video standards among other things. They've published over 800 standards since founding in 1916. Check out their website https://www.smpte.org/ https://www.smpte.org/ They have global outreach, including education functions. Their staff page shows the major staff and functions - those people require offices and support staff. They provide market matching to connect groups to each other to further their standards - this takes effort and people. They have offices in many countries around the world..... Also in this space are the standardization consortiums ATSC, MPEG, JPEG, CCIR, CCITT, and a few others. So these are not simply copy and paste operations. Making a good standard and getting the market to adopt it is a lot of work.