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Re: Its about time!!! said by Romney2012:The IEEE standards committees have made themselves almost completely non-relevant. They take so long to do anything that the standards they vote on are almost old technology by the time they act. Let's place blame where it belongs, at the feet of the chip makers and vendors, not the IEEE. This happened with 802.11g too because the two competing standards would neither give nor take. The problem is that vendors start developing hardware prior to the standard being completed and then they try to abuse the IEEE process to protect their R&D investment.
The marketplace does a better job of identifying a market leading technology and ignoring all the losing versions. The IEEE would do better to just see who won the war and then declare them the winner. If the marketplace worked so well at setting standards, then there would be no need for the IEEE, ISO and other standards bodies. The fact is that such organizations existence is directly a result of trying to let the marketplace decide. Remember, we tried that approach prior to the standardization of TCP/IP. The problem with taking the marketplace of ideas approach to standards is that you have to deal with a myriad of incompatible standards causing issues for a long time until a clear winner comes out on top, if that ever happens.
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