36 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-isdnRe: I4B support for US ISDN?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| William McVey | Jan 22, 1999 5:06 pm | |
| Achim Patzner | Jan 23, 1999 5:03 am | |
| Martin Husemann | Jan 23, 1999 6:40 am | |
| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 23, 1999 9:04 am | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 23, 1999 2:11 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 23, 1999 4:05 pm | |
| Avalon Books | Jan 23, 1999 5:26 pm | |
| Martin Husemann | Jan 24, 1999 1:16 am | |
| Martin Husemann | Jan 24, 1999 1:26 am | |
| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 24, 1999 1:47 am | |
| Stefan Herrmann | Jan 24, 1999 4:26 am | |
| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 24, 1999 8:26 am | |
| Avalon Books | Jan 24, 1999 8:44 am | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 24, 1999 9:56 am | |
| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 24, 1999 10:49 am | |
| Achim Patzner | Jan 24, 1999 11:21 am | |
| Eivind Eklund | Jan 24, 1999 4:36 pm | |
| Avalon Books | Jan 24, 1999 7:45 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 24, 1999 8:06 pm | |
| Hellmuth Michaelis | Jan 25, 1999 12:54 am | |
| Barry Scott | Jan 25, 1999 2:44 am | |
| Achim Patzner | Jan 25, 1999 3:04 am | |
| Barry Scott | Jan 25, 1999 3:52 am | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 25, 1999 11:49 am | |
| Avalon Books | Jan 25, 1999 5:03 pm | |
| William McVey | Jan 26, 1999 10:08 am | |
| H. Eckert | Jan 26, 1999 5:41 pm | |
| Bert Driehuis | Jan 26, 1999 6:10 pm | |
| Avalon Books | Jan 26, 1999 6:56 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 26, 1999 8:22 pm | |
| Andreas Klemm | Jan 26, 1999 9:10 pm | |
| Archie Cobbs | Jan 26, 1999 10:03 pm | |
| Achim Patzner | Jan 27, 1999 3:19 am | |
| Ignatios Souvatzis | Jan 27, 1999 3:34 am | |
| Gary Jennejohn | Jan 27, 1999 12:11 pm | |
| Thordur Ivarsson | Jan 27, 1999 6:42 pm |
| Subject: | Re: I4B support for US ISDN? | |
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| From: | Achim Patzner (ap...@bnc.net) | |
| Date: | Jan 25, 1999 3:04:56 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-isdn | |
And now someone might tell me why the CCITT needs such a brain damaged vocabulary to describe the simple facts of life.
Maybe the facts are obvious to you. But would I understand them the same way? If not we cannot communicate. Much of the language of the CCITT is an attempt to be precise in specification.
Totally off-topic, but...
This is not what I wanted to say... Let me try again: The entire civilized world would use the term "byte" for data words of 8 bits size. CCITT needede to coin the term "octets" to keep the French happy. The same about the term "reference point". And calling the equipment to connect non-ISDN devices to an S reference point "Terminal Adapter" was some kind of meanness too - at that time this term was already in use for totally diffenrent equipment. It's like IBM using EBCDIC . "We're the Borg. Prepare your dictionaries to be assimilated".
I stumbled about that kind of "we don't really care" when I started working on an X.400/X.500 project a long tiome ago.
And if you care for precise specifications... Yesterday I had to learn that IETF isn't much nicer than my scrutinizing Archie's original message (which I just did to remind people of CCITT's way of demanding "precision"). And obviously their papers are definitely easier to understand ynd readable without looking up words in the glossary all the time.
Noses.
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