Nate - My vision for ARSO was in large part a clearinghouse for existing standards. But I forsee a need for creating new standards, or insuring interoperability between existing standards. For example, I mentioned:
ARSO developed a simple identifier that could be transmitted with most digital modes, allowing very easy lookup of the technology used for every transmission.
That's an example where something like ARSO would be very useful.
Another example would be who "arbitrates" the header structure of two different digital voice modes when you want them to interoperate? You change YOUR header to be compatible with ours! No, YOU change your header to be compatible with OURS! Etc.
There are just so MANY Amateur Radio "standards" out there and we're innovating so fast now that the time seems ripe to bring them together into one "organization", in part to make it easy to find them. I saw examples of that issue during my time in ARDC, where grant proposals sought funding to "reinvent the wheel" and create a new standard, mostly because they had no idea that a similar, possibly usable standard already existed.
It will take someone with more stamina and resources than I to herd those various cats.
Nate - My vision for ARSO was in large part a clearinghouse for existing standards. But I forsee a need for creating new standards, or insuring interoperability between existing standards. For example, I mentioned:
ARSO developed a simple identifier that could be transmitted with most digital modes, allowing very easy lookup of the technology used for every transmission.
That's an example where something like ARSO would be very useful.
Another example would be who "arbitrates" the header structure of two different digital voice modes when you want them to interoperate? You change YOUR header to be compatible with ours! No, YOU change your header to be compatible with OURS! Etc.
There are just so MANY Amateur Radio "standards" out there and we're innovating so fast now that the time seems ripe to bring them together into one "organization", in part to make it easy to find them. I saw examples of that issue during my time in ARDC, where grant proposals sought funding to "reinvent the wheel" and create a new standard, mostly because they had no idea that a similar, possibly usable standard already existed.
It will take someone with more stamina and resources than I to herd those various cats.