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> When I try to think of any product or service born of a standards committee that has been wildly successful, I can't think of any. He says in a post submitte
by teacup50 11y ago
> When I try to think of any product or service born of a standards committee that has been wildly successful, I can't think of any.
He says in a post submitted over HTTP, using DNS for name lookup, TCP for OSI layer 3 transport, implemented in client software via POSIX socket APIs, encapsulated in IEEE 802.2 frames traveling across IEEE 802.3 and IEEE 802.11-defined physical mediums, routed by BGP and maybe even some OSPF.
Come on. You really can't think of any?
- bcoates 11y agoAre any of those except maybe 802.11 born of a standards committee? off the top of my head: HTTP came from CERN and w3c was years later; TCP is the alternative to the stillborn OSI standard; POSIX is a relatively recent AT&T UNIX-clone standardization effort; Ethernet was from Xerox PARC (although most of a modern implementation is from the IEEE era)
- cscharenberg 11y agoExactly - most of these became standards after an entity produced a good solution in the real world and it became useful to formalize them and evolve collectively.
- teacup50 11y agoWhat qualifies as "born"? Successful standards committees are just a group of implementing industry members. WebSQL, for example, was edited by Ian Hickson. The work almost always predates the standards committee -- also just like WebSQL.