"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:

Given that they were making up a new 'standard' I assume they could have
done that, but it would have meant defining a cable standard as well
as ones for source and load. Hardly rocket science, though!...

They weren't really "making up a new 'standard'", they were making up a
quick fix to solve a particular problem.

David.