In their excitement to develop new technologies, scientists sometimes overlook how their inventions will work with each other. Usually, that job falls into the laps of harmonisation and standardisation organisations and technical industry forums. Think of the internet and all its dotcoms; think of the mobile content downloads; think of VOIP and IPTV — all these technologies took years of R&D to develop before they were finally taken into world forums, debated, discussed, refined and finally adopted globally.