Paul Lalonde wrote:
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.
And where will you find any brilliant expert willing to do that job?
It's guaranteed thankless and without innovation.
Big house with expansive lawn sloping down to Lake Geneva. Lots of
ITU-paid servants and readers of papers at your beck and call. Maybe a
string quartet too. And a jester to deliver bad news.
Nothing is as soul-draining as standards arguments.
Let the serfs argue. You rule.
--
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)
