On Thursday 11 May 2006 20:20, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > Where standards are enforced, it is through legislation. That's why > > we can make a phone call anywhere in the world. That's why we can > > plug appliances into 3 pin plugs anywhere in Australia. > > Not quite so fast lad. > RJ45 sockets are wired according to convention, but it has no legislative > background. And you can take your cable and plug it into any RJ45 socket in > the world and expect it to work - unlike those 3 pin appliance plugs. I've > of course got computer gear that doesn't use them - an UPS can come > configured with an Aussie or a IEEE socket,
True. Coommunication related standards that currently move *my* world include TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, XML-RPC, Ethernet, H.323, 802.11, OpenPGP, Posix, MP3, .... none of them was assisted let alone enforced by legislation - possibly one of the many reasons why they actually work globally. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
