Bell's Axioms on Standards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 15, 2004 @10:00PM from the more-interesting-than-you-think dept.

CowboyRobot writes "The inimitable Gordon Bell has a 5-page article at ACM Queue on the difficulties and necessities of standards adoption, in which he lays out 11 axioms on how to best establish and adopt standards. He quotes MIT's Dave Clark, 'Standards setting sits in a boring trough between two exciting peaks. The first is the peak of technical innovation, and the second is the billion-dollar investment or market.' It's often the rush for money that makes us move to fast to do the job right."

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Pedantic but... by BeerCat · 2004-10-15 22:22 · Score: 5, Funny

standards setting sits in a boring trough between two exciting peaks. ... It's often the rush for money that makes us move to fast to do the job right.
Standards (now) exist in spelling, ever since Dr Johnson's dictionary came out. Before then, spelling was whatever someone could be bothered with.

Or did I misinterpret the last sentence, and what was actually meant was that the rush for money makes us abstain from food to do the job right?

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