Interoperability and the right to switch
The Bridge of Babel Who can change the shared language?
What this series asks
- Is reading the specification the same as implementing it independently?
- Who accumulates the switching costs and the right to make changes?
- Who verifies interoperability failures?
The questions
1 · 2026 · 45 days until the joint maintenance equipment orderWho bears the cost of implementing an open specificationAll 13 judgments agree
2 · 2035 · 90 days until the standards revision charter renewalTurning a maintenance contribution into a right to change specificationsSplit 9:2
3 · 2180 · 18 months until the joint maintenance fund recommitmentWho is responsible for the old connections of a forked specificationSplit 10:1