It says since the adoption of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, policies designed to deal with the threat of dangerous climate change, are lagging "far behind" the scientific evidence.
VOA: standard.2009.09.01
Be it the adoption of pricing model in the utilities industry in the world of IT and publishing, the car rental model giving way to vacation rental plans or the music and e-commerce industries coming together, we all have a Chicago butcher story in our lives and many are waiting for that Henry Ford moment to happen.
However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).