Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Hohpe Gregor

Standards are officially born when an inventor or group of inventors makes a formal proposal to a standards body. Usually, this requires membership in the standards body. Each standards body enforces its own process for shaping proposals into a standard, and all members are legally bound to those rules. The processes generally involve the forming of a working group or committee to further develop the specification under the oversight and eventual approval of the organization’s management. Intellectual property rights and licensing policies are often hot topics in these organizations and can vary between standards bodies and even between working groups within the standards bodies.