Advantages and disadvantages of having international standards for network protocols?

Answer 1

Advantages:

1. The adoption of international standards for network protocols results in the creation of equivalent, national standards that are substantially the same as international standards in technical content

1. International standards is one way of overcoming technical barriers in international commerce caused by differences among technical regulations and standards developed independently and separately by each nation, national standards organization, or company. Technical barriers arise when different groups come together, each with a large user base, doing some well-established thing that between them is mutually incompatible.

International standards organizations remove any political advantage by publishing their network protocols publicly, and usually for free.

Disadvantage:

1. International standards provide connections to different computers at different part of the world. So this may lead to differences such as appearance, o.s, and many other factors which results into conflicts in governmental regulations.

Answer 2

Con: Standards take longer to ratify, often having to be amended to fit de facto conditions that were in place while standards were being made.

Pro: Hardware and software that follow standards can communicate without additional translators, ultimately saving energy and processing time, and lowering the costs of operating a network.

Answer 3

Advantages:

We have a standard to work on i.e we know that another person working on it wil follow what we do. Secondly as it becomes widely used, the effective usage increases...it becomes easy for people to make applications that use such protocols.

Disadvantages:

Often standards made tend to limit themselves in a way or the other. Once made it's difficut to change a standard when we have better methods found.

Answer 4

The advantage that is prominent in networks today is the ability use the physical components and software by most of the manufacturers together with other physical components and software by different manufacturers. These standards have given universal guidelines and rules to follow thereby ensuring that the user can purchase which ever brands he/she likes and would be able to use it in a network where devises and software from other brands are already being used.

This ensures not only the ease of access to a network by a client (client can use the physical devices and the software that he/she can gain easy access to other than waiting for a specific brand or specific manufacturer) but also the ability of interconnecting networks with ease.