Computing Standards
- Created by: Scotty.D
- Created on: 10-05-17 09:01
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- Computing Standards
- De Jure
- 'De Jure' means 'by law'.
- These are De Facto standards that have become so universally accepted that they have to be adhered to or communication is impossible.
- Examples
- TCP/IP
- ASCII
- Unicode
- 'De Jure' means 'by law'.
- De Facto
- De Facto standards develop over time because of common usage
- Examples
- PostScript
- QWERTY keyboard
- Microsoft Word
- Proprietary
- Standards owned by an organisation
- Examples
- Windows is a software standard owned by Microsoft
- Proprietary standards are often widely used but they are not approved by an independent standards body.
- Industry
- Industry standards are set by recognized non-commercial organisations.
- Examples
- ANSI
- IEEE
- ITU
- Open
- Publicly available
- Produced collaboratively
- not dominated by any one interest group
- Not for profit and available free of charge or at a small cost
- Sufficiently detailed to allow interoperability between the developers that use them.
- Examples
- HTTP
- HTML
- WAP
- De Jure
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