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Re:USB4 Specification by throwaway156503 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:25PM (#20871345)
> None of the people working on this spec are idiots

There are a lot of very smart people in the world that lose sight of simple concepts and their value, however.

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Re:USB4 Specification by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:07PM (#20871726)
I've witnessed some Standards negotiation in a previous job, involving the Khronos OpenMAX standard (which is DirectShow/GStreamer for mixed HW/SW multimedia codecs).

My company and another had opposing solutions to a problem, which made opposite tradeoffs and opposite implementations (ours worked better for a more HW-focused solution, theirs for a more SW-focused solution)

How does one choose? In the end, it's backroom negotiation, diplomacy, and compromise. In other words, politics.

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Re:USB4 Specification by rswail on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:45AM (#20874591)
In other words, and as the IETF demonstrates, consensus.
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