Autonomic Computing

Introduction

We briefly discussed the value and definition of open standards in Chapter 7. There we indicated how important open standards are to the IT community, corporations, and software vendors and suppliers. This is an approach where everyone can benefit. It benefits new technologies by allowing for flexibility and choice.

Standards evolve, develop, and are managed by standards organizations, bodies that manage the agreement on, development of, education in, and future research for standards between all interested parties. Today, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a U.S. government body, there are close to 800,000 global standards on just about every conceivable product, service, object, or endeavor, ...