Criteria for evaluating specifications

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As Andrew Tannenbaum said, "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." Apparently he followed this up by: "And if you really don't like all the standards you just have to wait another year until the one arises you are looking for."As Andrew Tannenbaum said, "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." Apparently he followed this up by: "And if you really don't like all the standards you just have to wait another year until the one arises you are looking for." So how does one choose? Why adopt one specification and not another? There are many possible reasons, and this article is an attempt to catalog some of them.So how does one choose? Why adopt one specification and not another? There are many possible reasons, and this article is an attempt to catalog some of them. In the...In the...