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I really wonder what is up with that. These standards become increasingly frustratingly complex even for people who deal with them daily.
by Roritharr 5y ago
I really wonder what is up with that. These standards become increasingly frustratingly complex even for people who deal with them daily.
- colechristensen 5y agoIt’s just design by committee and long-standing efforts for backwards compatibility. Also the people writing the standards are far too familiar with them and thus a bit lost when it comes to making practical decisions. Whenever you make changes there will be compromises and someone will have reason to be unhappy.
- mannykannot 5y agoThere is no way that eliminating 2.0, in such a way that everything that used to rate as 2.0 now qualifies as conforming to some subset of 2.1, can be justified as backwards compatibility.
- jjoonathan 5y agoCable manufacturers probably realized that the secret to profits lay in resisting commoditization, beat a path to the table, and made it happen.
- zokier 5y agoI don't think its particularly odd that the specifications are supersets of old versions; indeed that feels pretty common in the standards world. IETF specs are maybe the odd ones out where you typically have to read like ten different RFCs to get good picture of some standard.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoFree market of fraud is going on, there should be a cost to lying