John Chambers wrote -

>Of course, there's a very real fear that once something gets  into  a
>standard, there will be social pressure to implement it.  ;-)

Why would something be in the standard if nobody wanted it?  If people wanted 
it, why shouldn't it be in the standard?  The social pressure would come from 
users who wanted the functionality.  A standard would just help everybody to 
agree on what "it" was.

>the abc2win  use  of  '!' ...
>the !foo! thingies that have been proposed for ornaments and
>other annotations. These two uses are somewhat in conflict.  

Of course, if whichever of these came first had been included in a standard 
the conflict would never have arisen.

Bryan Creer

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