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Some good points. At the same time, sometimes standardization is good and necessary. Imagine if everyone had to reimplement TCP/IP analogues to communicate over
by ryukafalz 5y ago
Some good points. At the same time, sometimes standardization is good and necessary. Imagine if everyone had to reimplement TCP/IP analogues to communicate over a network; we'd never get anything done!
- NateEag 5y agoAnd those types of universal standards arrive by a process not unlike evolution - everyone who wants to has a crack at the problem and the solutions compete for a painful decade or two. Eventually a winner emerges from the top few frontrunners, and by 2040 only networking historians remember ALOHAnet or token ring networks. However, you can't top-down design a universal standard. With sufficient skill, patience, and wisdom, you may be able to design a standard that's good enough to be widely applicable. Humans have free will, though (in practice, at least, no matter what you think about the philosophical question). A standard only becomes universal when everyone chooses to adopt it.