1. Foundations and future prospects of standards studies -- 2. Developing a basis for global reciprocity -- 3. US and EU regulatory competition and authentication standards in electronic commerce -- 4. A step towards the adoption of standards within the UK Ministry of Defence -- 5. On aligning the properties of standards with the needs of their direct users - network operators -- 6. The performance of standard setting organizations -- 7. Patents and standards in the ICT sector -- 8. A framework to build process theories of anticipatory information and communication technology (ICT) standardizing -- 9. Integrating real option and dynamic capability theories of firm boundaries -- 10. Standardization education -- 11. How engineers learn about standards -- 12. IT service management standards -- 13. Factors influencing the lifetime of telecommunication and information technology standards -- 14. IPR policy of the DVB project -- 15. Structural effects of platform certification on a complementary product market.