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Welcome
to the NO-REST Project
The Networked
Organisations - REsearch into STandards
and Standardisation Project (NO-REST) has been created
by a consortium gathering three research institutes (Fraunhofer
Institute, TNO, SINTEF), three universities (Aachen, TU Delft,
Edinburgh) and a European standardisation body (ETSI) to investigate
the applicability and dynamics of standards in the e-business,
e-government and ICT sectors in order to develop tools for
the assessment of their performance and of the impact they
have on networked organisations.
NO-REST
is a Specific Targeted REsearch
Project (STREP) of the IST programme funded
under the 6th Framework Programme
NO-REST
is looking at the application of standards, and analysing
how standards, and their implementations, are subject to change
incurred by the environment within which they are implemented.
The project is going to devise an analytical framework for
a causal model of such changes. This, in turn, will help understand
the nature of these changes and to allow for the derivation
of conclusions for developing standards in the future, and
of possible mechanisms to feed back these changes continuously
into dynamic standards building.
The project
is also analysing the various standards setting organisations,
with a focus on how they react to – and influence –
the dynamics of the environment within which they work. This
includes an analysis of the ‘credibility’ of a standards
setting organisation, i.e., to which extent does the origin
of a standard influence its viability in the market place.
The project is about to establish if, and how, a standard’s
origin affects its performance, and will set up guidelines
helping those who wish to create a standard decide which standards
setting organisation to select.
Finally,
based on the above, NO-REST is developing, and applying methodologies
to help assess the performance of standards ex post and ex
ante. This will ultimately contribute to guidelines and tools
to evaluate the various impacts of standards.
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