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/  On the other hand, the TCP camp also   \
| has a phrase for OSI people. There are  |
| lots of phrases. My favorite is         |
| `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the    |
| Internet philosophy has always been you |
| have extremely bright, non-partisan     |
| researchers look at a topic, do         |
| world-class research, do several        |
| competing implementations, have a       |
| bake-off, determine what works best,    |
| write it down and make that the         |
| standard.                               |
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| The OSI view is entirely opposite. You  |
| take written contributions from a much  |
| larger community, you put the           |
| contributions in a room of committee    |
| people with, quite honestly, vast       |
| political differences and all with      |
| their own political axes to grind, and  |
| four years later you get something out, |
| usually without it ever having been     |
| implemented once.                       |
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| So the Internet perspective is          |
| implement it, make it work well, then   |
| write it down, whereas the OSI          |
| perspective is to agree on it, write it |
| down, circulate it a lot and now we'll  |
| see if anyone can implement it after    |
| it's an international standard and      |
| every vendor in the world is committed  |
| to it. One of those processes is        |
| backwards, and I don't think it takes a |
| Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford |
| to figure out which.                    |
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| -- Marshall Rose, "The Pied Piper of    |
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