[LEAPSECS] Get off my lawn!

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <66081CE0-2C07-4407-96C6-9E53239EFF0E at batten.eu.org>, Ian Batten wri
tes:

>>

>> 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,  


Tell me about it.

22 years ago I first wrote a OSI stack all the way up to TP4 with
NetBIOS on top, then we scrapped the entire thing and installed
TCP/IP on all the European Parliaments computers, over the loud and
nasty looking objects of the European Commission.

But the point remains:  ITU cannot *force* people to use their
standards, thus my comment about the dubious reach of their arm.

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