jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) (01/19/86)
In article <1034@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes: > >While the idea of international standardization is a very good one, I am >afraid it is very naive to expect a newsgroup by itself to accomplish >anything. What is needed is an international committee, containing >representatives from the principle computer companies in the world. Oh, no!!!! Please Please Please let this not be given to a committee. Committees are great (well, more-or-less) for standardizing things (like unix, and C), but awful for inventing a standard from scratch (like X-25, or X-400). I think that a lot of discussion, like in this newsgroup, together with serious research is the way to go for the next few years. A committee will probably come with a solution where every swedish letter is representable on a printer in Japan, and visa versa, without giving a single thought to wether the price for this isn't far too high. Let's just continue the brain-storming, and install the committee in a decade or so, and we'll have something nice to live with. By the way, someone from Unix Europe Ltd. posted a longish article to the net a couple of months before net.internat started. I tried to contact him since then, but didn't succeed. If the poster reads this, or someone has a copy handy, maybe it could be sent to this group. As I recall, it contained a lot of ideas about internationalisation of unix (and I disagreed with most of them). -- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP The shell is my oyster.