On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, David Harper wrote:
> I'm jumping in here without reading the complete thread but . . .
> Standards ultimately lead to choice. Standards build markets. [etc.]
It is true that there are better and worse ways of making standards.
I suppose I was thinking about the problems not just with standards
themselves, but with the particular standards bodies that
telecommunications providers work with, and how they develop standards.
You're using right now an excellent example of competition between
different styles of standards-making. I remember back about fifteen
years ago seeing a book (I'm almost certain it was by Marshall Rose)
entitled _ISO/OSI: The Protocol of the 90s_. I recall that to mind these
days and now think, "It sure is!"
The IETF's "rough consensus and working" code model just clobbered the
ISO, at least as far as computer networking goes. And the ITU seems to
me much closer to the ISO way of doing things....
For a relatively closed system such as keitai, the vendors are using
the standards where they matter. I deliver the exact same XHTML web
pages (yes, exactly the same!--well, except for emoji) to Docomo, AU and
Vodafone Japan phones, and they all work just fine with my web site.
That's what the customer really needs, much more than the ability to
carry phones across vendors.
cjs
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Received on Thu Feb 17 10:52:36 2005