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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- In article <130193@uunet.UU.NET> pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) writes:
- >at this time, we will not go ahead with accepting the proposals as
- >POSIX projects.
- > ...
- > Was the decision of the SEC wrong?
-
- No, it was precisely right. IEEE and its minions very badly need to
- exercise a bit more judgement about what gets pursued as a standard.
- This was a step in the right direction. It is a travesty to produce
- a "standard" for each manufacturer's different solution to the same
- problem, the more so by the "direct ballot" (translation: "do it our
- way, papa knows best") route. It is far more important to standardize
- things on which there genuinely is consensus.
-
- There is also the entirely separate issue that many people (e.g. me)
- feel that *any* standard in this area is premature, since we just don't
- understand it well enough yet.
- --
- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 38
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