That's nothing compared to the Brokian Ultra-Cricket rule book, that, according to the Guide (h2g2), was so massive that it underwent a gravitational collapse under its own weight, causing a massive blackhole.
>>> How about all standards committees advising one individual, the >>> standards czar, your brilliant expert, with a background in law and >>> social science as well as technology, who is able to apply duly >>> constituted public authority to a standard. He/she cannot have any >>> alliances with anyone but the ITU. >> >> And where will you find any brilliant expert willing to do that job? >> It's guaranteed thankless and without innovation. > > Big house with expansive lawn sloping down to Lake Geneva. Lots of > ITU-paid servants and readers of papers at your beck and call. Maybe a > string quartet too. And a jester to deliver bad news. > >> Nothing is as soul-draining as standards arguments. > > Let the serfs argue. You rule.
