🚀 go-pugleaf

 >|   Where do you get your figures?  My understanding (without any
 >|   official stats) is that OSI is creeping slowly into the public
 >|   sector, but TCP/IP systems (and IP router) sales are booming in the
 >|   private sector, and keeping ahead in the public sector.
 >Sure, but a handful of years has an enormous effect on exponential
 >growth curves.  I'm assuming a growth curve which goes linear spread,
 >through exponential growth, to linear at the tangential, and matures at
 >a logarithmic curve (range (0,->)) approaching saturation.

hmm - with various announcements like ERNET in india, i suspect you
are gonna see another order of logarithimic growth injected into
internet protocols

the Internet trick to have free specs
was to distribute the cost of specs and implemntations throughout all
itnerested parties -

ISO arguments about covering costs through copoyright are balderdash -
just look at the costs all the companies inveolded have in travellign
to the absurdly expensive places the ISO and CCITT committees hold
their meetings, (i agree that all the IETF  being in the states doesnt
help comparison very well, though)

 >(Note: if you didn't read all of this article, please mail me and
 >complain about its length.)
(complain:-)

 jon