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Re: Why Standards?

• To: Adam Turoff <ziggy@p...>
• Subject: Re: Why Standards?
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:35:36 -0400
• Cc: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>, xml-dev@l...
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 > A goodly portion of the internet was
 > built on de facto standards, *not* de jure standards dictated by 
standards
 > bodies.

Not sure what you mean by this, but the following were all created out 
of thin air by IETF working groups consisting of multiple individuals:
    IP, UDP, TCP, SMTP, SNMP, EGP, HTTP/1.1, FTP, IMAP
The following were primarily the work of one or two individuals at first
    DNS, HTTP/0.9, NNTP, NTP, SSH
I'm not sure about POP.

A goodly number?  I don't think so.
	/r$


-- 
Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology         http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway    http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html

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