Standards: a maturing technical activity connecting COMSOC with industry [The President's Page]

Developing and establishing standards is crucial to a modern world community aspiring to take advantage of technological advancements. In particular, communications and networking standards enable equipment interoperability, reduce the cost, and thereby favorably impact the bottom line for service providers. Those savings can then be passed on to end users and make communications affordable to mass commercial and consumer markets. Concomitantly, global industry has also come to expect from IEEE the best possible communications and networking standards. For these technological areas, the bedrock of IEEE expertise lies with the Communications Society (ComSoc) and its technical committees (TCs).