Paul Lalonde wrote:
Standards are for when there are too many cooks in the kitchen. By
their very nature they have to compromise.
Give me the work of a standards committee before the the work of a
single idiot; but most of all give me the work of a brilliant expert
before that of the committee. And for God's sake, please don't turn my
expert into an idiot by throwing him onto a committee!
How about all standards committees advising one individual, the
standards czar, your brilliant expert, with a background in law and
social science as well as technology, who is able to apply duly
constituted public authority to a standard. He/she cannot have any
alliances with anyone but the ITU.
--
Wes Kussmaul
CIO
The Village Group
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
781-647-7178
My uncle likes to say that the world’s biggest troubles started when the serpent said, “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.” I don’t get the serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure.
P.K. Iggy
_How I Like Fixed The Internet_
(Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009
and the prosperity that followed)
