[e2e] the evolution of deployability

[Craig Partridge]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212171621540.9349-100000 at shoshin.uwaterloo.ca>, Roop
 Mukherjee writes:

>Indeed it seems that standards allow mass production of compatible things. 
>But, the question under debate here is why does evolution of such things 
>seem to slow down.

Because the standards process often arrives only after the technology
has had some success, which creates an entrenched market that may or may
not wish to change?

Craig