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On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Maybe we should submit the kicad board file for acceptance as the
> standard. ;)
>
> It’s actually not a bad idea.  My board house takes Gerbers or Kicad, and
> nothing else.
>
> Plus, it’s open source, which standards bodies like.  (But even commercial
> stuff *can* become a standard — I was part of the team that submitted PDF
> to ISO.)
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
>
>
I have sat through some of these standards committee meetings and a lot of
it is politics. Somebody from a big company has their pet idea that they
can
force it through even if its a lousy idea. A well run opensource
development could probably do a better job.




John Eaton