> From: Yoav Nir [[email protected]] > > Very appropriate for XKCD to post this just a few days before an IETF > meeting. > > http://www.xkcd.com/927/
And yet sometimes a standard will sweep away everything that was before it. One remarkably successful case is "ASCII" (containing the 26 letter neo-Latin alphabet used by (only) the English language, ten digits, and a couple of dozen punctuation marks), which seems to be contained within every character code in common use. Another is the "Internet Protocol", a networking scheme that differed from its many competitors by not being sponsored by any networking company. I really do believe that in 1,000 years, a section of any good "history of computer technology" book will explain why a certain few letter-forms are segregated into the first 128 locations in the character code. Dale _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
