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To: technologiste who wrote (71880)	7/31/2002 3:12:36 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Do you think Arpanet will ever catch on, or is it in that same category? <g> Charles Tutt (SM)

To: technologiste who wrote (71880)	7/31/2002 4:33:40 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Interesting how you mention failed American initiatives... When I think about good government initiatives, I think about: - ISDN, the digital standard that replaced analog phone lines in Europe some years ago. - GSM, the world's biggest mobil phone system. But other good standards, done internationally are: - ASCII. Try to imagine Windows with EBCDIC... - JPEG. Try to imagine the internet without it. - MPEG. But Linux isn't a standard made by governments. It's a market standard that is favored by big companies and governments because it increases competition on the market, just like TCP/IP and e-mail is being actively promoted by many governments, including the American. There are many examples of good and bad standards. But one thing is sure: A bad standard only has good implementations made by one company. Dybdahl.