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We use our doubts to smother our hopes and so nourish our fears. It helps to know enough about the technology to determine when a standard is useful. Copping out to the permanence of change is just that. Applying the term without differentiation makes it meaningless. The question is, what would be meaningful to you just as I asked Dare. Conformance testing goes a long way toward making that leap from faith to provable fact. That is why test marks are a formal sign in the family of trademarks. It enables one to make IP work for an industry instead of against it. len From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:Peter.Hunsberger@S...] I think I'd have to agree with Robin. A (perhaps non-standard) dictionary look-up of "standard" yields many meanings two of which seem relevant: - An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value; a criterion - Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence I personally don't expect the word standard as applied to specifications to give it much more weight than using the term specification by itself. Knowing who authors and/or endorses a spec. is sometimes useful. However, I don't expect any particular heritage or endorsement for any particular spec. to give it any special staying power, universality or commercial viability.
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