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Are 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
by bcoates 11y ago
Are 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.