The Teaching Module “Role of Standards in ICT” provides a comprehensive overview of the different functions of standards for ICT particularly their importance in ensuring the interoperability, compatibility, and reliability of ICT systems. It also discusses the benefits and challenges associated with standards and emphasizes the need for collaboration between stakeholders to ensure that standards are developed and maintained in a way that benefits all parties involved. In a final section, we present different categories of blockchain standards and related examples. Here, we rely also on the standard landscape analysis performed within SEEBLOCKS.

The learning objectives of this lecture are:

• To know the various functions of standards
• To understand Compatibility/ Interface Standards, Minimum Quality/ Safety Standards, Variety Reduction Standards, and Information/ Measurement Standards
• To be able to apply the different types of standards to ICT specific topics
• To be able to apply the insights on functions of standards in general and ICT standards in particular to blockchain standards