Re: The telephone network and the internet (RE: [ga] ALAC comment s on proposed Bylaws modifications)

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@club-internet.fr>]

On 09:33 14/03/03, Stephane Bortzmeyer said:
> > You are right that the fact that we have to pay to read the ITU texts, is
> > not central in the discussion.
>
>It is central. Because it shows, among other things, that the ITU is
>still the closed and secret bureaucractic and inefficient monster it
>was when it created X400 (and tried to force people to use it).

As far as I known it CCITT was not a monster. X.400 as you know
introduced/stabilized key network features. X.500 was the monster.
I always wandered who was the mad guy who proposed it :-)

X.7X series were nice work. No spam in those days. Had you
been there you would certainly have enjoyed working in there:
people were nice, efficient and polite. People like Larry Roberts
and Barry Wesler, were welcome, etc. Everyone known everything
to the minute ... yellow pages all over the place.

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