ICT standards: building a trusted information society [Commentary]

Standards provide a common language, and standards development is a process that builds commitment to consistent use of that language. Benefitting from incredible amounts of standards developed by various communities, society has been able to evolve and progress continuously, moving from an Agricultural Society to an Industrial Society to today???s Information Society. Standards have provided the building blocks of the Information Society, with ICT devices generally adhering to an enormous collection of standards developed by a wide range of communities.