[ih] Ken Olsen's impact on the Internet

[Eric Gade]

I mean in terms of ISO standards in general, not just networking or
computer-based messaging or what have you.  It's abnormal for them as an
organization to take on a task in that way.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>wrote:

> Eric Gade wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Miles Fidelman <
>> mfidelman at meetinghouse.net <mailto:mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>> wrote:
>>
>>    OSI was an attempt to impose a classical, top-down, standards approach
>>
>> It is my understanding that a top-down process is fairly uncommon as far
>> as the formation of international technical standards are concerned, and
>> that OSI was abberant in this regard.
>>
> Really? With the exception of IETF standards, I've seen pretty much
> everything else get written by committee, then promulgated, then fixed in
> later revisions.
>
> As far as I can tell, the bottom-up model, based on "rough consensus and
> running code," as well as multiple interoperable implementations – with a
> very slow progression from experimental to recommended to mandatory – is
> unique to IETF.
>
>
> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In<fnord>  practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
>
>
>


-- 
Eric
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