Eric, about open standards
With proprietary (open) standards the proprietor develops the technology they think people want - hope they want. When development is at a certain stage, standards are developed.
It works slightly differently with open committee based standards. Development is slower, time to market is longer.
Keep in mind how the GSM is created. It was because of the need to bring all the fragmented markets together. So when they were working that things together, it was totally different from what we are seeing today in 3G. That is everybody brought their working solutions to the table and talked it over, both technology wise and political wise. That is they at least had something that was run and tested in the real world one way or another.
Now look at what's happening in 3G, or say WCDMA. What they brought together is nothing more than a bunch of smart people bringing their theory, imagination, or fantasy sometimes. Throw in the fact that back then they still dreaming about find something to circumvent Q's IPR, which makes more wild imaginations instead of more realistic and optimized solutions. People are so worked up on stuffing in their own unproven solutions , they just stuffing this duck and who knows what will stick on the wall by the end. Ben have been giving very good updates of what is going on in the circus, I mean 3gpp.
Give me one real example of things as a pure result of a standard by commitee without having a practical solution first. Look at ISO OSI 7 layers model, it's a thing of beauty right? Only in the class room my friend.
The open standard is created to bring the different proprietary together.
The open standard is created out of proprietary.
The open standard is the end result, not the starting point.
That is how the industry works. |
