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Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, And Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

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How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military’s Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of “openness” to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other “open” systems still depend heavily on hierarchical forms of control.
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    July 3, 2014
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    Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
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    5.99 x 0.82 x 9.02 inches
  8. Print length
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  • Ilya Grigorik
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating historical perspective on the making (and the drama) of open standards
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2015
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    If you haven't already, go read the free "OSI: The Internet That Wasn't" article in IEEE Spectrum (just search for the name), as it'll give you a great preview of what you'll find in this book.

    The book provides a fascinating historical look (1900+) at how, and why, the various standards organizations came to be, what drove them, and where they've succeeded and failed. Andrew Russell has clearly done his homework: the book is very well researched and provides plenty of historical vignettes and stories - a great read. And there are lots of stories to tell since standardization is very much a political process that is dominated by colorful personalities.

    Curious to understand how the internet as we know it today came to be? What did David Clark really mean when he (now famously) said "We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code." Who were the players, what were the disputes about, and why and how did we arrive at the current architecture? Well, then you've found your book. Great read.
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  • Vinton G. Cerf
    5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable capture of history of standards in the Internet era
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2014
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    While I might quibble here and there, Russell captures a great deal of historical detail especially during the 1973-1993 period of Internet's evolution that has not been particularly documented in the past. If I ever get around to writing my own views of this period, I will make good use of Russell's work, in part to jog memories and to use better documentation references than memory can offer.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Concise and Sane
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016
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    Had the honor of reading History of Science and Technology and not showing up to class. This was decent too.
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  • Kenneth Krechmer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent history of 20th Century communications standardization
    Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017
    This book provides a historical perspective on standardization processes and the standards that define communications systems. Starting with telegraph systems (1860s) the author offers a very comprehensive history of communications standardization including the Internet with an emphasis on standards that purport to offer "openness".

    As a historian the author does not pick "right" viewpoints but presents what is known. As example, the different concepts of openness are not discussed but are referenced, because there is no common agreement of openness. The author does an excellent job of including the references that have proposed different ideas of what openness might mean. This is the greatest strength of this book. It offers the most complete bibliography of 20th Century standards and standardization journal articles, reports, oral histories (some collected by the author) and books this reviewer has seen. The text includes even more references than the bibliography.

    Chapters 2 and 3 offer an excellent history of the development of the American standardization system. These Chapters should be required reading for anyone planning to attend a US standardization meeting. The author recognizes that standardization is a process balanced between the ad hoc flexible nature of markets and the hierarchal regimented nature of government and offers the term, "industrial regulation".

    Chapter 4 provides a history of standardization in the monopoly Bell System before World War II (the most complete this reviewer has seen). The Bell operating companies, each serving specific markets, had very different requirements than the research groups or manufacturing company (Western Electric). This explains the give-and-take internal standardization process even in an organization (AT&T) that was seen to be monolithic. This history also identifies the separation that AT&T maintained between its internal standardization activities (often considered proprietary) and the growing national standardization organizations (e.g. American Engineering Standards Committee).

    Chapter 5. The rise of concerns about the monolithic nature of AT&T prompts the formation of the Federal Communications Commission in 1934 and the first antitrust action against AT&T in 1949. This anti-trust action was settled with the Consent Decree in 1956 which limited AT&T to being a common-carrier. Beginning in this Chapter the history of communications protocol layers 3 (network) and above are presented. As example, this book does not address the physical interface at layer one (RS-232) used to separate early computer and common-carrier systems. RS-232 (~1960) marks the beginning of independent electronic compatibility standards.

    Chapter 6 provides the early history of Arpanet and packet-switching offering a good (non-technical) understanding of how the virtual circuit (e.g., CCITT X.25) and datagram (e.g., Internet TCP) modes of packet-switching divided communications and computer companies respectively. This chapter does not address the concept of a "spanning layer" (as identified by David Clark [Internet engineer] after the Internet was deployed) which proved to be so important to establishing and maintaining compatibility of the Internet. The spanning layer in the Internet is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP – layer 3) and aspects of the Internet Protocol (IP) layer 4 above it.

    Chapter 7 presents the history of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) development in ISO (an international standardization organization) noting the major difficulties that emerged in maintain compatibility between different OSI systems. Such compatibility problems did not occur using the Internet TCP/IP protocols due to fixed spanning layer protocols. The lack of compatibility of the OSI implementations destroyed the credibility of OSI implementations, as the author notes. The options in the OSI layer 3 and 4 (transport) protocols caused the gravest incompatibilities. Such options did not exist in the Internet TCP/IP protocols.

    The author explains in concluding Chapters that openness had little to do with the success of the Internet and the reverse might be closer to correct. In summary, this book is the best history of 20th Century communications systems and the standardization processes that created them, that is available. The author is to be complemented for presenting clearly and fully what is know and avoiding the more technical and speculative issues of why.
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