Thread by @doctorow

I've been paying close attention to @RepThomasMassie during the #ACCESSAct markup and I can't figure out his point. He correctly observes that proprietary standards are anticompetitive, but opposes the gold standard for open standards, namely, an IPR policy requiring licensing

@RepThomasMassie has described himself as a software developer, but it really feels like he is way, way out of his depth on standardization. Has he ever participated in an SDO. Not being able to distinguish between "interop" and "common vuln" is a pretty tyro error.

It's stuff like this that makes people assume that lawmakers are incapable of understanding - and thus regulating - technology. @RepThomasMassie really needs to get up to speed on how standards work.

PS,The USG has been mandating interop and IPR waivers since at least the civil war, when firearms and ammo for the Union Army were mandated to be standardized and available from multiple vendors.

Because putting key societal functions in the hands of a single vendor makes your civilization brittle and liable to failure. Good governance prioritizes reslience.