More standards – more successes – more failures
Introduction I have seen people ask the question: MPEG makes many very successful standard but many are not widely used. Why do you make so many standards? I know they ask this question because they dare not ask this other question “Why don’t you make just the good standards?”. They do not do it because they know that the easy answer would be the famous phrase attributed to John Wanamaker: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the…