>> 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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