[LEAPSECS] Get off my lawn!

[Ian Batten]

>

> If you want a relevant technical precedent, look at the OSI protocols:

> They were ITU standards which everybody ignored in preference for  

> TCP/IP

> which actually worked.


If only everybody had ignored them.  In some European countries,  
government policy on OSI was stronger than in others, and held back  
adoption of functional protocols until the OSI bandwagon finally shed  
its wheels.  The UK academic community, both operationally and in  
terms of research funding, played more than lip service to (in  
particular) X.400(84) and X.400(88), and the careers of several high- 
quality researchers were arguably expended on a protocol stack that  
would never achieve critical mass.  ISODE and PP are proof of that.

ian