[CEUD-ICT] Statements re Standards

[Joshue O Connor]

Gerard Ellis wrote:
> 1. There are no such things as Open Standards

If by the word "Open" you mean that the details of a technical
specification are available to anyone who has the inclination to read it
- then no, that statement is false.

> 2. The only international standards with any merit are those from the 
> International Telecommunications Union (www.itu.int)

IEEE may be unhappy to hear that lol. The relevance of any standard
depends on your domain of interest, its level of adoption. Standards are
a way of moving beyond "De facto" standards, or in other words
proprietary - "We build it so, we set the standard for better or for
worse" - to the time consuming and murky world of collaboratively
developing something that everyone can work with.

Cheers

Josh

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