ETSI and LISA Standards: What Does It Mean?

On April 26 an announcement went out that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) “has agreed to accept responsibility for the LISA open standards works.” This statement has raised a lot of questions about whether this means that yet another group is wanting to take on some of LISA’s mantle and work on standards for the localization industry.

As the GALA team begins to work on the next Language of Business conference for March 2012, GALA managing director Laura Brandon reflects on the conference that has just passed: GALA 2011 in Cascais, Portugal.

Arle Lommel discusses reasons that many standards initiatives fail. He argues that we must understand the possible causes for such efforts’ failings if we wish to make standardization successful. GALA’s standardization initiative must critically examine these obstacles and address them directly.