[kukx]

What about RJ45? Why it did not require any bureaucratic regulations to become the standard connector in network devices? I am convinced the less regulation in trivial matters the better.

[jwdavidson]

RJ45, part of the Registered Jack family of connectors designed by government-mandated telephone monopoly AT&T and codified in 47CFR-68 by the FCC, is free of bureaucratic regulation?

[kukx]

It has nothing to do with who invented the connector. The question is why it is dominantly used without being forced upon the users by regulations.

[nextaccountic]

But it was mandated by the government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack

Telephones and other telecommunication devices have been mandated to use RJ connectors for decades!

[vel0city]

It's dominantly used because it was forced by regulations.

[toast0]

It was an existing standard, already mass produced that was unencumbered, convenient, and sufficient.

Wired networking standardization tends to be lead by groups that want to use the technology and also sell it, rather than by groups that mostly want to sell it. There still were four competing 100M ethernet standards, and now a fifth 100Base-T1 has appeared (but targetting specific niches).

If all that changed between USB1.0 and USB 4 version 2 (or wtf it ends up being called) was twisting the pairs more (more or less), the cabling issues would be less too.