15 Aug
2006
15 Aug
'06
13:20
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:11, jdow wrote:
No sir. There was an RFC for IP over carrier pigeon written. Had the RFCs been considered compulsory then that document would have had to be taken seriously and the technology developed, stalling all sorts of interesting things like "the web".
Well, just because someone publishes a standard, even if it becomes officially adopted by ANSI/ISO/Whatever, that doesn't mean anyone is actually forced to implement it. All it means is that if you ever implement TCPoP (Transmission Control Protocol over Pigeon), and want to call yourself standards compliant, you have to abide by that standard