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David Megginson wrote: > The fact is that ISO never did well with computer technology, either > before *or* after XML. We use the four-layer DoD networking stack, not > the seven-layer ISO/OSI stack, and we look to the IETF, not ISO, for our > protocols. Even modest computer tech successes like SGML have been rare > for ISO. The seven-layer stack is joint ISO/ITU-T thing, and the ITU-T has done OK in telecoms - V.* modems, I.* ISDN stuff, and G.* ADSL stuff are all pretty de-facto these days... But anyway. Having looked into a lot of them, I've always got the impression that the ISO/ITU-T standards would be lovely to work with, but lack mindshare - they're not marketed very well. Perhaps if national governments mandated that all software sold in that country had to comply with existing data format / protocol / API standards, where possible... :-) > > David > ABS
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