Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 11:48:24 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Message-ID: <200205311548.g4VFmOl0004904@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
| How would that work (having 2 full standards for the same exact thing)?
Depends on what the thing is, and how precisely you mean "the same exact
thing".
In some cases it wouldn't - it is common for a new std to obsolete an old
one, no reason that can't continue.
But sometimes the new std is written in such a way that the old one can
also continue. Eg: the standard for IP. There's a new one (not yet
full std, but really should be by now), and the old one. They do the same
job, but can co-exist (version field works, though other ways used more
commonly). You might say those are not the same thing, but the new one
really is intended as a replacement (eventually) for the old.
kre