First there needs to be a demand for interoperable products.

The disclosure order concerns the interface documentation only, and not the Windows source code, as this is not necessary to achieve the development of interoperable products.

The PCI-SIG has more than 800 member companies that develop differentiated, interoperable products based on its specifications.

The Alliance publishes application profiles that allow multiple OEM vendors to create interoperable products.

All are agreed that laying down some ground rules now will improve the prospects for interoperable products in the future.

We anticipate the development of media-rich, interoperable products aimed at defining the computing paradigm of the information age, he said.

Widespread adoption of 802.11 networks only occurred after the release of 802.11b which resulted in multiple interoperable products becoming available from multiple vendors.

Quality and level of detail - sufficient to permit the development of a variety of competing implementations of interoperable products or services.

Future-proof - standards ensure that there are interoperable products on the market, no matter what happens to individual companies.

Z-Wave has an alliance and more than 600 interoperable products in a certification program.