NA> Let me ask the non-technical people here. You know who you are. Tell me
 NA> why we even need an FTSC anymore?

   I don't regard myself as non-technical, but just the same I want to answer
your question.

   With the present mandate, the FTSC is totally obsolete.

   The way to go is of course to give the FTSC the mandate to decide, not to
just document. We could easily collect the hundreds of present documents and
turn them all into one standard document.

   But our hands are obviously tied. Ergo, hobby programmers all around the
world can happily invent all kinds of non-FTN stuff, and then send them in to
the FTSC and get the shit documented, if only they have a few nodes (common
practice) that are using their crappy software.



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