Re: [9fans] Brdline

[Wes Kussmaul <wes@village.com>]

Paul Lalonde wrote:

>> How about all standards committees advising one individual, the 
>> standards czar, your brilliant expert, with a background in law and 
>> social science as well as technology, who is able to apply duly 
>> constituted public authority to a standard. He/she cannot have any 
>> alliances with anyone but the ITU.
>
> And where will you find any brilliant expert willing to do that job? 
> It's guaranteed thankless and without innovation.

Big house with expansive lawn sloping down to Lake Geneva. Lots of 
ITU-paid servants and readers of papers at your beck and call. Maybe a 
string quartet too. And a jester to deliver bad news.

> Nothing is as soul-draining as standards arguments.

Let the serfs argue. You rule.

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My uncle likes to say that the world’s biggest troubles started when the serpent said, “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.” I don’t get the serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure. 

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