Technical standards are a typical phenomenon of complex societies. They are a means to achieve control and to regulate or coordinate the production and uses of technology. Proportional to the increase of complexity, standards are a prerequisite for enabling the (international) interlinking of technical components and systems. In this book, researchers and practitioners argue that standardisation should be understood as technological as well as social and political activity. Standards are socially constructed in complex and lengthy interaction and negotiation processes. To negotiate norms and standards proves to be a technological as well as political tour de force. One way to get a better grasp of what is going on in standardisation processes is to focus on these micro-level processes of arguing and bargaining.This work combines two ambitions. In the first place, it feeds into a growing academic interest in standardisation processes. The book brings together perspectives from the history and sociology of technology, economics, business studies and political science. Their views on standardisation processes will be confronted with the views of experts who were actively involved in such processes. In the second place, it helps to prepare the way for outlooks into transnational infrastructure development, as part of a foresight exercise performed by STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends.Key questions that will be addressed in this book are: How do technical standards emerge? What is the role of negotiations in these processes? Who are the negotiators? Which problems do they face? What is the role of national and international (political) styles, informal networks, reputation and prestige? Finally, what does this mean for research and policy on standardisation?