Lee Waun wrote in a message to Pratap Derrick:
 PD>      The rumor is that the standard will be mostly X2..
 PD>      and the log jam has been broken and a tentative
 PD>      agreement has been reached.. approval is expected
 PD>      at the Jan Meeting...
 LW> Better get your facts straight. Intel forced the standard to be
 LW> agreed upon back in Dec and it is mostly Kflex. Go to the intel web
 LW> site. They discuss it in detail and X2 was the loser big time. The
 LW> standard is based on the Rockwell\Lucent technology. 
Really?  Care to quote the URL for the piece of persiflage?  The Intel 
website seemed to have nothing that claimed that Rockwell/Lucent were the 
basis for the proposed ITU-T standard with x2 being the big loser.  The only 
items I could find were similar to the below which comments about blending.
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07-Jan-98
INTEL ARCHITECTURE LABS PROPOSAL BREAKS GRIDLOCK IN 56K STANDARDS PROCESS
When the standards process gridlocked at the September 1997 meeting,
Intel Architecture Labs realized that the modem industry's ability to
conclude a standard in a timely manner was in serious jeopardy.
IAL quickly dispatched an internal team comprising engineering, legal, and 
marketing members.
Over the last two months the IAL team gathered data and proposed a
compromise solution which blended the technology from x2 and K56Flex.
 
"What saved the day was the industry's common, overriding interest in
growing the entire market through interoperable, standards-based products,"
said Dave Ryan, Intel's Director of Technology Marketing, Intel Architecture 
Labs.
For more press information, see PC Week Online
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwo/1205/260961.html
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Regards,
       David
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