What Kinds of Enterprise Integration Standards Apply ?
Standards and Models developed by Industry and Government
bodies fall into 3 categories:
- Proprietary Standards
- Consensus Standards
- Regulatory Standards
- Proprietary Standards
- Most companies involved in enterprise integration establish
a set of proprietary standards, Models and Methodologies which they use
internally. A number of these proprietary standards are discussed in
the "Methodology" section of this website, but unless they have become
"de-facto" industry standards (like some Microsoft standards) they will
not be listed here. In some cases, proprietary standards may be
"promoted" to consensus standards (for example Ethernet was initially a
proprietary Xerox standard, but was eventually converted to an IEEE
standard).
- Consensus Standards
- Industry bodies such as IEEE or ISA are the source of
industrial "consensus" standards where industry representatives meet
and agree on common approaches. In some cases, a standard may gain such
wide acceptance that its use is required by various government or even
supra-government bodies through regulations or even laws. For this
reason, there is often government involvement in the establishment of
industrial standards.
- Regulatory Standards
- Government bodies issue national standards, regulations,
and in some cases, even laws which govern design, implementation and
use of control and information systems and networks. Government bodies
also support the development of international standards which they then
adopt as national Regularory Standards. This is done because of the
benefits such standards bring to their nations in terms of access to
international markets and development of technology at home.
Unfortunately, in some developing countries, national Regulatory
Standards may also be used to limit access of foreign products to their
national markets. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has had some
success in discouraging this practice.
by Gary
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