Kavi White Papers
Kavi white papers have been written to help guide you in setting up and running your standards setting organization. Advice in these white papers is based on many years experience working with a wide range of organizations.
Analyzing IT Costs for Standard-Setting Organizations
Surveys of existing standard-setting organizations indicate that many have no idea how much they are spending on their IT and Web infrastructure. Those that venture a guess often leave out entire categories of expense (staff or consulting, maintenance, security, etc.). The purpose of this document is to help organizational leadership develop a complete picture of their current IT costs and to provide a method that helps determine if outsourcing to a software as a service (SaaS) provider will reduce their annual outlays and free up resources for spending on core activities.
Electronic Balloting for Standards Organizations: Guidelines for Compliance with Delaware General Corporation Law
Many organizations are incorporated under Delaware Corporation Law or in states with law modeled after the Delaware statutes. DCL has some very specific provisions regarding electronic balloting and consent that impose some requirements on the organizations' voting and ballot processes. This document details those provisions and offers suggestions for how to comply with them using Kavi's balloting system or an email system.
Operating Policies and Procedures; Engineering a Process for Standards Setting Success
A tutorial on how to design a process for standards setting that takes into account important internal and external factors unique to each consortium.
Moderated Sign Up - a Process for Ensuring Compliance with Policies and Procedures
Having a signed membership agreement and IPR policy on file before allowing participation. This paper describes a process for ensuring compliance with consortia legal documents and policies.
Reducing the Cost of Standards Activities
The costs of creating standards can be significant, with possible totals in the millions of dollars for a single standard. Costs include such things as the standards infrastructure, organizational membership dues, and travel for meetings, but the most significant cost is that of the people doing the work of developing the specification. Some amount of cost savings can be realized by streamlining the development and approval process, and costs can be spread by increasing the number of participants. But with the most significant costs coming from the time and effort of the participants, the greatest amount of savings can come from making the development process more efficient, which is most easily accomplished by providing the participants with modern electronic collaborative tools.
Technology Infrastructure for Standards Consortia
This is a Kavi authored white paper on putting policy into daily practice, achieving high operational performance levels, and responsibly governing a standards consortium.
Principles to Live By - Guiding Principles for a Standards Technical Process
This white paper discusses a number of general principles upon which the technical process of a standards-setting organization should be based. These principles are defined in three related documents, the U.S. Standards Strategy, the ANSI Essential Requirements, and the World Trade Organization's Technical Barriers to Trade agreement. By taking into account the principles and best practices of Openness, Balance, Transparency, Coherence, etc. in the technical process, a standards-setting organization will produce higher quality specifications that meet market and industry needs and are more likely to be adopted and implemented.
Data Management for Standards Organizations
A brief overview of Kavis policies and procedures for information redundancy, backup and restore safeguards of customer and corporate data.
Foundations for Successful Standards Setting-Properly Defining and Implementing Policies and Procedures
This white paper defines a number of best practices for standards-setting organizations and industry consortia. By proper definition and administration of organizational structure, policies, and procedures, a standards-setting organization or industry consortium can establish a strong foundation for success and avoid many of the problems that could interfere with the organization producing the work for which it was chartered. Basing the development of technical work on a strong technical process, staying on a strong financial footing, and protecting the organization from risk all contribute to the ability of the organization to meet its objectives.