Exactly. If you're going to base your interconnect on an industry standard, you have two options as far as I'm concerned: A) Follow the spec B) Make your off-

Exactly. If you're going to base your interconnect on an industry standard, you have two options as far as I'm concerned: A) Follow the spec B) Make your off-spec interconnect physically incompatible with standard devices Going off-spec with a compatible and physically indistinguishable connector is an "attractive nuisance," to use the tort term.