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[Doug Gwyn]

In article <740 at jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> mark at jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>One of the SVID's biggest flaws is that it is NOT a standard: it was never 
>balloted and approved by anyone.

That's not a necessary criterion for a standard.

>It is an interface specification for a particular implementation of Unix.

That argument was rejected by Federal courts during the AFCAC-251 appeals.
The SVID is a useful specification for waht constitutes "UNIX
functionality", much more so than any available alternative.
It certainly is not logically tied to a particular implementation,
although for economic reasons most would license AT&T's product rather
than start from scratch.

>If the SVID were a standard, there would have been no need for P1003.
>Unfortunately, there were a couple of hole in the SVID which you could
>drive trucks through, hence P1003.

Nah, IEEE P1003's formation had little to do with the SVID.