Subject(s): E-business -- Standardisation -- Telecommunication policy. -- Information technology in Standards. -- Standard setting in markets- browser war, competition through institutional form- case of cluster tool standards, economic realities of open standards, coordination costs and standards setting, promoting e-business through vertical IS standards- lessons from US home mortgage industry, intellectual property and standardization committee participation in US modern industry, manipulating interface standards as an anticompetitive strategy -- Delay and de jure standardization- exploring slowdown in internet standards development, standardization- failing paradigm, standardization battles and public policy, switching to digital television- business and public policy issues, should competition policy favor compatibility