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how about someone (or two) experts write the standard?
worked for K&R.

brucee

On 1/19/06, Wes Kussmaul <wes@village.com> wrote:
> Paul Lalonde wrote:
>
> > Standards are for when there are too many cooks in the kitchen. By
> > their very nature they have to compromise.
> > Give me the work of a standards committee before the the work of a
> > single idiot; but most of all give me the work of a brilliant expert
> > before that of the committee. And for God's sake, please don't turn my
> > expert into an idiot by throwing him onto a committee!
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Wes Kussmaul
> CIO
> The Village Group
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> 781-647-7178
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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 collecti=
vely 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 fru=
it part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure.
>
>                         P.K. Iggy
>                         _How I Like Fixed The Internet_
>                           (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009
>                           and the prosperity that followed)
>
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