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Slays me that wifi ended up with IEEE instead of the IETF for example. The profit motive really seems to drive a privacy-second approach to some of these standa
by mattlutze 5y ago
Slays me that wifi ended up with IEEE instead of the IETF for example. The profit motive really seems to drive a privacy-second approach to some of these standards.
- contingencies 5y agoRF engineering is hard. IETF is ... scope averse, change averse, inertia-driven, and ... not exactly a bastion of hardware manufacturing excellence. IEEE is also way better than, say, the ITU, whose resistance to packet-based switching is famous and whose systems in that space are largely semi-mythical to extinct and who are politically inclined to actively stand for centralized and billable systems in lieu of decentralized local communications.