scaffolding the new web, rand study, 2000. it's not just about the nonsense to try to standarize semantics and onologies but also unfolds some of the problems people involved faced with osi; and ietf had to deal with afterwards in regard to standardization ... | thanks to carl cargill

osi was the answer to a lot of questions, it is just nobody asked the right questions. i mean the costumers did not care about those questions answered, but for computer people they were really essential; but for users, no, they didn’t want all the complexities. that’s the great success and the great tragedy of osi. the fact is that people re-realized that standards are complex and have to be dealt with. and the bad thing is they never asked the costumers what they wanted ...

... the european government was saying: we are only going to buy osi, here is my internet address. | cargill

tineke m. egyedi: why java was - not - standardized twice d. linda garcia: crafting communication policy in a competitive environment, and standard setting in the united states: public and private sector roles

btw "the atom publishing protocol" rfc 5023 is out. if i remember right the discussion started, - ah, yes, right, 2004 ...

working on osi standards for more then 10 years world wide ... not to count companies who believed ... and went bankrupt afterwards.

three projects, set up by the eu having more or less the same goal: filling the tech. gap in europe

esprit: (etienne davignon, driving force, m. carpentier, director of task force) pilot phase: ? phase 1: 1.5 BECU (exhausted in three instead of five years) phase 2: 3.2 BECU race: spin off from esprit (ptts) 550mecu eureka: (mitterrand, driving force) 6 BECU by the end of 1990 (vienna meeting fo eureka ministers) | high tech europe

¿the impetus of so called computer open systems? for sure an attempt to circumvent the "onerous pricing policy" of ibm in the mainframe market and it sounds reasonable that it was an effort to reduce the cost of computer equipment for the user - then data processing departments of large companies, but what does it have to do with stereo?

The "plug-compatible" movement eventually wound its way through the market and the courts, but before it concluded it established several of the fundamental concepts that were to drive open systems. To begin, the plug-compatible movement set in place the most enduring mental image of emerging open systems computing: The "stereo concept". Its proponents argued that a component stereo audio system was a model for the design of data processing (dp) systems, since its various components were designed to interoperate, and interoperation was guaranteed by standardized interfaces ... | carl f. cargill, evolution and revolution in open systems, standardview 1994