Welcome message: Expanding the coverage of communications standards

As Vice President of Standards Activities of the IEEE Communications Society, I want to welcome you to the first issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine supplement on Communications Standards. This supplement is the culmination of the efforts of many people to create a publication that serves the interests of the members of the global standards community who develop, use, or are otherwise interested in communications and networking standards. The aim of this publication is to cover a broad spectrum of communications and networking standards as well as standards-related disciplines, including innovation and standardization theory and methodologies, standards-related research, and standards regulations, as well as the intellectual property and socio-economic aspects of standards.