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Exactly, ask the ISO how well the standards specified by their OSI reference model [1] competed with TCP/IP et al. The only substantial remnant of the OSI network standardization process today is the generic concept of protocol layers.

Or see the HTML standardization process. Or a hundred other examples.

Standardization almost always follows implementation, not the other way around.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_reference_model#Examples (see the "OSI protocols" column and compare to "TCP/IP protocols")



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