Government Government and public sector procurement are one of the major factors in viable standardization. The government gets competing suppliers and the associated cost and quality benefits of this competition. Smaller consumers benefit from the established baseline standards, and the underlying business value of these as well as the competition. The suppliers benefit from the ability to both establish the baseline capability of their products, and then articulate their differential value. This will result in expensive divergence and bad investments, all of which will fall back on the taxpayers to fund later.
Governments can also enter the standards arena from a regulatory perspective.
Proactive industry involvement can establish alternatives for government intervention, or a basis for rational and collaborative intervention. Other industries involved in the convergence of communications and information technology understand and apply this line of thinking in their standard strategies. Through Standards Seminar may be of particular value.