On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:08:22 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 09:35:59 +0100 Mike Tomlinson 
> wrote:
>
>> En el artículo , The Natural
>> Philosopher  escribió:
>>
>> >However did the TCP/IP standard happen without the EU!
>>
>> Europe's answer to TCP/IP was OSI, and look what happened to that.
>> Just
>
>  Hmm an answer on which work started in 1977, more like a parallel
> development.
>
>  Europe maybe (at a push) but not the EU - OSI came from ITU (based
> in Geneva Switzerland - not an EU country - with 193 member countries)
> and ISO (also based in Geneva with 162 member countries). Both of these
> organisations are rather larger (in terms of member countries) than
> Europe.
>
A perfect demonstration of the fact that it is not necessary to be a
member of the EU to work with standards & that the EU has very little to
do with developing standards except to dictate which ones member states
have to follow, more often succumbing to political pressure rather than
practicality.


>> as well it never came about, we wouldn't have an internet today.
>
>  An OSI based global network would certainly be very different.





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