Re: [xml-dev] Recent allegations about me

• From: Tei <oscar.vives@...>
• To: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:12:56 +0100

On 1/30/07, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@...> wrote:
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>
> Only two standards seems quite good actually.  I remember working on ISDN
> (Integrated Services Digital Network in case you've forgotten).  Europe had
> 64K channels where as most of the US had 56K channels.  Europe accessed
> premises at the S/T interface and US at the U interface.  ITU issued the
> main signalling standard as Q.931.  ETSI then mutated that for European use.
> And then British Telecom mutated it even more for BT use (BTNR).  Similarly
> US had their mutation of Q.931.  I'm sure those coders had great fun!
>


Another example of standards gone mad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge

With map :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rail_gauge_world.png