The goal of any standards group should be to generate end-user value, argues John G. Waclawsky, Ph.D. in this paper written when he was a member of the senior technical staff of the mobile wireless group at Cisco Systems. Notable quotes from the paper include: "Most vendors would rather be system integrators than commodity box and part suppliers" "The telcos and their suppliers want to “circle the wagons” against the threat of component technologies and business models" "Incumbents use the slow pace of system standards to help protect their markets and business models" "Market-based projects with “cookbook” outputs would help the system standards bodies remain relevant"