The usual answer when this things happens in standards committees is those companies who aren't ready to ship product yet. If they can stall the official relea

The usual answer when this things happens in standards committees is those companies who aren't ready to ship product yet. If they can stall the official release of the standard, then it gives them time to catch up. Of course, other companies can release hardware on the not-quite-released standard. There were v.90 modems that were pre-standardization for at least 2-3 years. All this does is harm the consumer at that point, since it impacts interoperability; making companies wait to ship products that they have working because of one laggard is just not fair. "There comes a time in every project when you must shoot the engineers and begin production.”