Re: [9fans] Brdline

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

>
> 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.
You need a brilliant domain expert, and most of those are very much  
interested in their work, not in farting around being advised by  
committees.
My last employer killed my sense of worth by pilling me on standards  
committees, evaluation committees, coffee-cup-washing committees ad  
infinitum.  I may not be a brilliant expert, but they put me there as  
an expert, and killed the expertise simultaneously.  Nothing is as  
soul-draining as standards arguments.

Paul