On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 07:03:19 +0100, jfcm said: > is validated. A market standard is the desciption of what works and is > adopted. We might find this way a fortunate compromise? Unfortunately, "market standards" often include borken things that are adopted via forced-feeding. More than one vendor has done this, and some research would probably find at least one example at each of the 7 OSI layers. Current pet peeve - 100BaseT auto-negotiation on older gear, especially when "the other end" is nailed to something other than auto. (Co-worker's comment on that one - "Didn't we go through that whole subnet and clean that up twice already?" :) So much for market "standards". (Yes, I know it's better now. The hardware involved is many moons old).
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