The 5 and only 5 open standards requirements

The minimal requirements against “Open Standards Rules” (“OSTARs”)

regulating open standards,

supposed that:

- all other requirements below are met

- all OSTARs fulfill their own rules for open standards

- whatever is not explicitly regulated is permitted

Open business model choice:

Max market internalization

Open competition:

Max agent number

Open knowledge:

Max agent information

Open market:

Max market permeability

Open substitution:

Max substitutability

Rule-maker (OSTARs-maker, regulating how to fulfill the roles of open standards below)

Open business model choice:

OSTARs can be either

[Hereditarily] Open Source, or

[Hereditarily] Proprietary Source

Open but max “FRAND” royalty choice for all of its max partitioned parts (modules) and the whole of it

in order to boost competition when actors below are open for control

Open knowledge: Public, online, real-time, 0cost, 0condition, visualized results of rules to actors fulfilling the different roles, i.e.:

Results of

- business model choices,

- “FRAND” monitoring,

- costs monitoring,

- plug-side & outlet-side substitutability tests, and all the information to meet them, incl. their public and publicly developed standard specification.

Open but max “cost+” market entrance & “free disposal” in order to ensure permeability when actors below are open for control

Declaration and execution of “The Open Substitution Statement”,

forbidden to control substitution executed by actors fulfilling these roles

Enforcer

Proprietor (Open standard proprietor, regulated by Rule-maker)

Open for control:

OSTARs can (non/ hereditarily) regulate the business model of the different actors fulfilling these roles of open standards,

or ensure them (non/ hereditary) open business model choice for how to fulfill these roles of open standards

Open but max “FRAND” royalty choice for all of its max partitioned parts (modules) and the whole of it, otherwise open for control

Open but max “cost+” market entrance & “free disposal”, otherwise open for control

Manager

Licencee (Open standard Licencee, regulated by Rule-maker or Propietor)

Implementer

End-user (Open standard End-user, regulated by Rule-maker, Proprietor or Licencee)

Forbidden to control substitution executed by actors fulfilling these roles

Financier