2009/03/27
A Standard is a Standard is a ...
When can one say that a certain type of consensus is worth being called a standard? Let us exclude - for the moment; I might come back to this - the question of formality and ownership. So I am not going to discuss if the term standard depends on the body owning or maintaining this or what the difference between a standard and a de facto standard is.
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