Subj : Future Applications
To   : Nick Andre
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Sat Dec 16 2017 06:31 am

 NA> Let me ask the non-technical people here. You know who you are. Tell me
 NA> why we even need an FTSC anymore?

   I don't regard myself as non-technical, but just the same I want to answer 
your question.

   With the present mandate, the FTSC is totally obsolete.

   The way to go is of course to give the FTSC the mandate to decide, not to 
just document. We could easily collect the hundreds of present documents and 
turn them all into one standard document.

   But our hands are obviously tied. Ergo, hobby programmers all around the 
world can happily invent all kinds of non-FTN stuff, and then send them in to 
the FTSC and get the shit documented, if only they have a few nodes (common 
practice) that are using their crappy software.



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