>> It just seems to me that the chances of (say) two companies both
>> deciding to invent something like USB at the same time, and it being
>> interoperable, are so vanishingly small as to not be worth even
>> considering. You need a standard to work to or nothing will ever
>> interoperate.
>
> No. They can work together to make the standard, and then not accept the
> standard as a standard until it's already working. That's the IETF and
> ISO standards process.
So... why is the finished standard specificstion called a "request for
comments"? This has always bothered me...
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