On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:20:56PM +0000, Brian Butterworth wrote:
> Which is just another way of saying "standards are not standards if they are
> ignored".

I would disagree with this, a standard that is ignored is still a
standard, it's just an ignored one.

The word "standard" doesn't mean something that's commonly used it
means something that is on a standards track specification.

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