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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF
COMS 0.001300.0%Nov 7 11:47 AM EST
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To: Moonray who wrote (4302)8/22/1997 12:23:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS   of 22053
 
The same things happeded with IPv6 (the end-all replacement for current TCP/IP)....lots of patent vialations filed by DEC and others, requiring alot of "the really good stuff" had to be deleted from the core standard. This caused the end product to be inferior compared to the initial statement of requirements by the IETF. IPv6 will be a hard swallow for most now. It just does'nt offer enough in return for it's transition.

The standards bodies are public entities to assure quality communications definitions that can be redilly adopted by the majority of the vendors who partake in the standards discussions. When you have a few rogue vendors who say "that's mine and you can't have it!", the standards commities must bend. There is no negotiation for a royalty paid...the funds simply are not there. And besides, that negates the idea of a standard. Imagine this: all parties who use a standard, except for "the whiners" have to pay. That would be a proprietary standard, and not a public standard. The ITU-T, ANSI, IEEE, IETF just don't work that way.

So in the end it is the user who pays with reduced cabability of the CPE equipment that use the "leading edge" technology.

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