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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XVT (& IEEE P1201.1)
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.173441.12201@alphalpha.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 17:34:41 GMT
References: <9007251317.AA03718@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <9007251317.AA03718@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
...
>This is certainly true, although my personal opinion is that it was not the
>driving force.  The driving force was the deadlock, and the desparate feeling
>that the group had to standardize on *something*.
Is anything more frightening than a standards group in search of something to
standardize on?  :-)

...
>The PAR was delayed on a technicality at the meeting in Danvers last week.  I
>think the general feeling was that it was delayed because the approval body
>did not wish to tackle what had become a very charged issue, both technically
>and politically.
While there was definitely a feeling that that they would delay it for that reason,
their objections seemed reasonable to me.  Particularly on something as controversial
as this I think too broad a scope would leave a standard open to being shotdown in
the final vote.

In the final analysis however, all I will say for sure is that standards meetings
are very interesting - in small doses.

								-kee




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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.