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On 8/25/2024 11:22 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Boeing spacesuit is made to work with the Starliner spacecraft,
>>> and the SpaceX spacesuit is made to work with the Dragon spacecraft,
>>> NASA told Fox News Digital. =93Both were designed to fit each unique
>>> spacecraft.
>>>
>>> Oops. I suspect that SpaceX will send up a couple of new space suits on=20
>>> the next supply spaceship.
> 
> For Apollo-Soyuz, the Soviets made up some adaptor boxes that went from the
> American space suit connections to the Russian ones (as well as the adaptor
> ring to connect the two capsules).  I am surprised this is not a solution.
> 
>> See, /this/ is why the ISO exists.
> 
> The ISO isn't really all that useful in the real world, partly because they
> promote standards without reference to how systems are used in the real world
> and partly because they charge money for the standards meaning small
> organizations are strongly discouraged from following new ISO standards that
> are not already in common use.
> 
> The whole upside-down-wedding cake of networking protocols looked great but
> didn't map in practice to what people were really using, and when tcp/ip took
> over the world it was like a steamroller over top of the ISO.
> --scott
> 

For a of couple years around 1990, I actually had to deal with
OSI protocols at MITRE.


Good riddance.

pt