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That is very interesting and leads me to wonder about something. Many times we see the standards quoted as answers and solutions, but there are many things which are vendor determined, there are many solutions which the designer may have to create or choose between none proprietary or proprietary methodologies which is not mentioned in IEEE.
Sometimes the most efficient of effective solution for your product may not be standard.
It would be nice to see some of these open methods which are used.

Before a standard is chosen i am sure there are many competing ideas to choose between ( a poplular example would be 802.11n), just like in evolutionary terms, the one selected may not be the only one that can do that job or be the most efficient in different circumstances.

I guess this could be handled under standards and interoperability from an operational sense, but on the engineering level i would think this would all fall under the rubric of Design, not being limited to just the standards.

Anyway just some thoughts

Regards,
Rico