Agree, I hate it when I come to the article for information and it starts with "On Monday, X woke up at 7am and had eggs for breakfast". I don't care what X had for breakfast, I came there to know about the lawsuit he's involved in, so give me the lawsuit and let him east the breakfast in privacy!
> The only question left is how do you fund standards development
I think there's an existing model of both government contracting private companies to do things and government allocating grants for private companies to do research, etc. - so either of those can be used for developing standards too, not? The government can also have a continuous financing of certain groups that are tasked with ongoing work on creating/updating standards.
Also, can be financed by involved industry - many industry players are as interested in having good standards as the government is, and are probably very interested in participating in developing those. Isn't that how IETF works?
> The only question left is how do you fund standards development
I think there's an existing model of both government contracting private companies to do things and government allocating grants for private companies to do research, etc. - so either of those can be used for developing standards too, not? The government can also have a continuous financing of certain groups that are tasked with ongoing work on creating/updating standards.
Also, can be financed by involved industry - many industry players are as interested in having good standards as the government is, and are probably very interested in participating in developing those. Isn't that how IETF works?