The functioning of technologies largely relies on standards – technical specifications that ensure that devices, systems and networks “talk” to each other. Due to the rapid pace of digital development, standards are increasingly assuming regulatory, economic and societal roles. How do these standards come to being? How, if at all, can their increasing regulatory function be legitimized? And what is their role in the current legal order? In her new book, Olia Kanevskaia attempts to provide answers to these and many other legal questions arising around ICT standardization.

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