In message <[email protected]>, Ian Batten wri tes: >> >> If you want a relevant technical precedent, look at the OSI protocols: >> They were ITU standards which everybody ignored in preference for >> TCP/IP >> which actually worked. > >If only everybody had ignored them. In some European countries,
Tell me about it. 22 years ago I first wrote a OSI stack all the way up to TP4 with NetBIOS on top, then we scrapped the entire thing and installed TCP/IP on all the European Parliaments computers, over the loud and nasty looking objects of the European Commission. But the point remains: ITU cannot *force* people to use their standards, thus my comment about the dubious reach of their arm. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
