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by omk 1063 days ago
Interop compliance should be a thing. Enterprise customers are missing the plot here. Please ask your software vendors to support interoperability. Example - Outlook should support/declare standard interfaces for video calling meeting links from other products. I see the need for a body for enterprise integration standards. Please help me such a body if there already is one.

I look specifically for something of the likes for Enterprise Integration Act of 2002 for software vendors.

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> I see the need for a body for enterprise integration standards.

Both ISO and IETF could and should do that. IETF in particular seems to be less effective than it used to be - an RFC used to mean something, to carry some weight, but now they're often just words into the void.

> used to mean something, to carry some weight

When was that? AFAIK, the great differential of RFCs is that they never carried any weight, and as a consequence the process wasn't taken over by entrenched interests.

They carried weight with the people trying to make this shit work, down in the trenches. It wasn't a perfect process, but it was a process - geeks trying to talk to each other, beyond bullshit corporate boundaries.

I don't think anyone really wants to talk to anyone anymore.