From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <43CE7123.5000608@village.com> 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] Brdline Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:01:39 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: dec50e1a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > 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