[odf-discuss] Open Standards and security

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

Also, one of the few invasions to be preceded by the airdrop of a 
CIA-authored comic-book;

http://www.ep.tc/grenada/


Another similar example is the adoption of standard hose couplings and 
fire hydrants after the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904:

http://www.fire.gov/newsletter/fall2004/Hydrants_NISTIR7158.pdf

-Rob
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Just an anecdote that may be a useful example:

There was a congressional investigation that resulted in common standards.

During the epicenter of the Reagan administration, the US decided (for
whatever reason) to invade the island country of Grenada.  Because of
the downturn in economy and the impending budget cuts pretty much every
arm of every branch of the armed services tried to get into the action
to rationalize their continued existence.

At several points the inability of the units in different services to
communicated directly cause problems (and IIRC deaths).  At one point a
land unit was pinned down by a friendly-fire naval bombardment.  The
unit was freed by an officer who had a long distance telephone card
(fairly uncommon at the time) who got to the nearest payphone and called
his unit and had the message relayed all the way up to Washington and
then back down through the corresponding chain of command to the unit
shooting at the land unit.

Anyway, that's all a while ago, but should be well documented.

-Lars
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