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- Submitted-by: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
-
- In <107019@uunet.UU.NET> hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (HL Rogers) writes:
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- >Submitted-by: rogers@ofc.uucp
-
- [discussion about NIST, FIPS, and IEEE standards pace omitted]
-
- >What I fail to understand is IEEE's continuing propensity to violate the
- >"prime directive", i.e., their failure to specify common practice.
-
- ...
-
- >Attempting to legislate change through IEEE dot n committees may even
- >work, but guess what? Instead of Uncle Sam buying something off the
- >shelf for near commodity prices, he has to buy a "special" for inflated
- >prices because it had to be especially developed. Nobody had it, not
- >common practice,... And guess what else? You, I, Roger Martin, and
- >the rest of us collectively make up "Uncle Sam." It's your money, ace.
-
- But isn't this exactly what has been happening for years in Federal
- procurement? Unfortunately, some of the same forces that encouraged
- this in traditional procurement must still be in operation, e.g.,
- the need of the procurement bureaucracy to ensure its continued existence.
-
- David Dick
- Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 4
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