Richard Town wrote in a message to Rick Collins:
 RC> Isn't it _Rockwell_ that's refusing to participate in interoperability
 RC> testing?  Lucent and 3Com have an arrangement, but Rockwell appears
 RC> unwilling.
 RT> That's a story.  Or is v.pcm SG16 recommendation to ITU(t) already
 RT> riddled with possible incompatabilities?
Hardly a story in the accepted sense of a work of fiction.  It is a story in 
the sense of a report of the known facts concerning the matter in question.
3Com and Lucent have already announced that they will be doing 
interoperablity testing.  2 weeks after that story, Rockwell is still not 
committed to interop testing even with Lucent, their partner in the 56K 
rum.
As for V.90 being riddled with possible incompatiblities, there are fuzzy 
areas in most ITU-T recommendations.  For the most part, those are centred 
around those features whose implementation is not mandatory.  An area where 
Rockwell has distinguished themselves in past by implementation oddities.
So once again Richard, are you denying that a Rockwell's vice president is on 
record as stating that Rockwell has no plans for interop testing?  A 
statement that was made more than a week after 3Com and Lucent announced that 
they would be doing interop testing?  Or are you denying the report that 3Com 
and Lucent will be doing interop testing with their products?
If you have a source for your belief that those reports are incorrect (other 
than your simple child-like faith that Rockwell can do no wrong), please post 
that source.  Either a quote or a url will do.
Regards,
       David
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