succesful protocols are useful with only 1 end

just reading the iab's
What Makes For a Successful Protocol?
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-protocol-success-03.txt
example 1: the first mobile phone was sold because you knew you could call any one of
600 million fixed fonrs from it (to think that last year in 12 months alone, more than
1 Billion cell phones were sold:)

example 2: www browsers could do ftp, gopher/ wais so you could get content immediately

example 3 skype - had voip but had PSTN call out capability from day 1, so you didnt
need another skype user to call

example 4: social nets - integrate web pages and youtube and mp3 sharing...

examples of doing it wrong -
noone used IPv6 coz the first code didnt do IPv4 intereworking from day 1.
noone uses sip as telephone people jumped on the sip bandwagon but didnt want to lose
business so noone did a sip client/proxy with skype style cal out

so all these things are complex....and call LOTS of stuff even when only 1 person deploys them

they all also breka postel's principle (badly) it seems to me...

Learning to Lose L in ItaLian...but why...

can anyone say when the Italians lost the L in Florence (and Flora - e.g.
firenze and fiori) - it was sure there in Latin, and is still there for most latin
rooted languages...

lost letters are fun (look for cedillas in french- they indicate missing s...from old
french or even langue d'oc i believe) - of course, I might just be being naive
missing umlaut) - perhaps these letters were stolen by alients who had an increibly
advanced culter but no alphabet, and needed to make one up, but didnt have the
creativity to invent their own... or else perhaps the dolphins took them to put in a
museum to remember the best bits of earth...

ah, now what do the missing letters from all those languages spell?

oh, wat, i have it...they spell
"the secret to eternal life and happiness is.....arrghhhhhhhh!!!!"