Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ISO 639
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.164921.22689@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3109@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <1091@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <15894@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 90 16:49:21 GMT

In article <15894@haddock.ima.isc.com> jimm@ima.ima.isc.com (Jim McGrath) writes:
>...  If ISO really wants their protocols
>to gain widespread acceptance they should make it easier to implement
>them.  

Implement?  You think ISO cares about implementation?  Couldn't prove it
by me, not considering some of the things they put in those protocols.
You don't understand:  ISO protocols will gain widespread acceptance by
being rammed down our throats by politicians, not by being enthusiastically
accepted by implementors.  That's how ISO works.
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