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IM standard -- "design by committee"?
Author: Jacob Levy Posted: 5/2/2000; 10:18:55 AM Topic: IM standard -- "design by committee"? Msg #: 16892 Prev/Next: 16891 / 16893
After two years of time wasted trying to hammer out an agreement the IETF is trying to heat things up with a request for full blown proposals by June 15.IMHO the IM area is one where a stronger Microsoft (or a stronger AOL, for that matter) would have brought us a defacto standard long ago, if it had been allowed to happen as driven by market forces alone.
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