On 1/30/07, Pete Cordell <> wrote:
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> Only two standards seems quite good actually. I remember working on ISDN
> (Integrated Services Digital Network in case you've forgotten). Europe had
> 64K channels where as most of the US had 56K channels. Europe accessed
> premises at the S/T interface and US at the U interface. ITU issued the
> main signalling standard as Q.931. ETSI then mutated that for European use.
> And then British Telecom mutated it even more for BT use (BTNR). Similarly
> US had their mutation of Q.931. I'm sure those coders had great fun!
>
Another example of standards gone mad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge
With map :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rail_gauge_world.png
