From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43CE832C.2010205@village.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:04:28 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline References: <20060117014256.9D9991140EA@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> <1bd979c8293b4bbbeae8a22108c1a590@terzarima.net> <775b8d190601170845u477ecaebj413ad9b379dad329@mail.gmail.com> <1aba9f7b0601172138v738e6810r8a0a672e35569381@mail.gmail.com> <5E58BDCB-0337-4EFE-8F88-9DAD558ADCFA@telus.net> <775b8d190601172211v2c1d7198pbe9037bcfbbc649@mail.gmail.com> <3CB6185C-C035-42AF-AEC6-4D5D43F0707F@telus.net> <43CE7123.5000608@village.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: df15f0d2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Paul Lalonde wrote: >> How about all standards committees advising one individual, the=20 >> standards czar, your brilliant expert, with a background in law and=20 >> social science as well as technology, who is able to apply duly=20 >> constituted public authority to a standard. He/she cannot have any=20 >> alliances with anyone but the ITU. > > And where will you find any brilliant expert willing to do that job?=20 > It's guaranteed thankless and without innovation. Big house with expansive lawn sloping down to Lake Geneva. Lots of=20 ITU-paid servants and readers of papers at your beck and call. Maybe a=20 string quartet too. And a jester to deliver bad news. > Nothing is as soul-draining as standards arguments. Let the serfs argue. You rule. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)