It lacks a set of standards and practices that is common throughout the world.
The pharmacopoeia, in other words, would create a set of standards that all parties could work towards.
The group released a set of standards, called OpenSocial, that allows software developers to write applications that work with any social network that participates.
In the world Davis, Kumiega and Van Vliet imagine, engineers designing the trading programs would embrace a set of standards developed by their peers in the finance industry.
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Their collective power and influence was recently recognized in the publication of FTC rules governing their behavior, adding in effect a set of standards to be followed by the amateurs.
First, since medicine advances too fast for any politician to keep up, the reformers will cast in stone a set of standards that will be out of date before they are even passed into law.
The goal of developing a single international accounting standard is not entirely new--in fact, it dates back to 1973, when the International Accounting Standards Committee (now the International Accounting Standards Board) developed a set of standards to be used worldwide.
The goal was to establish and encourage the adoption of a common set of standards that would bring a 3G-like end-user experience to Wi-Fi by facilitating an automatic network discovery, selection and authentication of carrier-operated Wi-Fi networks.
The federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was passed in 2006 with the goal of creating a national set of standards for dealing with sex offenders and predators.
It's tough for workers to move around the country, for example, when each state has a different list of jobs that require licenses and a different set of standards to pass.
They have set out to create a new set of standards in social search and global trade of knowledge.
Now, I will admit that we have added into our legislation a minimum set of standards to ensure that somebody that's seeking a policy isn't fooled by a policy that may sound too good to be true and in fact becomes too good to be true.
Last month, a group of German business leaders, including Veba's Mr Hartmann, began to draft a set of corporate standards for listed companies.
It is launching an initiative to develop a set of banking standards which may be adopted APEC-wide.
Ethics are generally defined as a set of societal standards that encompass the norms of the community.
Patients' watchdog Healthwatch Staffordshire said a set of fundamental standards of care needed to be drawn up.
There must be a coherent set of standards for the NHS, which all bodies must comply with.
And because of these efforts, there will be a set of common standards that any state can adopt, beginning early next year.
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Adobe streaming technologies will support MPEG-DASH, a set of emerging standards for streaming multimedia content over the Web that will help reduce technology fragmentation.
By moving to a cloud model, companies benefit from using a common set of standards to connect different collaboration tools and applications from different vendors.
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Wicks said the trend is for larger institutions to move to a global compliance approach with a minimum set of standards across all their operations.
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"I expect ... a whole set of standards (last) used during the Gulf War, " says David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, an organization representing airline passengers.
He said the retailer did not have a different set of standards for its value burgers - found to have been contaminated with horsemeat - than any of its other lines.
The pilot is being implemented to test and validate birth record verification processes and to develop a common set of standards that states can use during the driver's license issuance process.
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What is clear that regulation will need to be as cross-border and connected as the industry it is regulating, but that finding even a common set of standards that can still allow for national implementation will be difficult enough.
Handling each of these transitions separately without a set of common standards and best practices not only costs us valuable staff time it also poses a burden that can deter contractors from competing for our business and wastes millions of taxpayer dollars.
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Counsel has established a set of data compliance standards that all retailers should follow.
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The firm, warning of the "considerable cost" involved in an ongoing legal challenge to European Union tobacco controls, said it had, with Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco, drawn up a set of cigarette marketing standards "in recognition of society's concerns".
Yesterday I noticed this story about a web startup called SlideShare ditching Flash (a proprietary plugin provided by Adobe) in favor of HTML 5 (a set of open web standards that have recently been adopted by the major browsers).
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