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This paper formed a part of a review of the role of standards in a research and development infrastructure, which was one of the main themes of the RARE 1989 European Networkshop. The paper examines the reasons for a clear policy on the use of standards and considers how such a policy may develop in future.

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Peter F. Linington joined the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, England, after a period of research at the Cavendish Laboratory. He has been involved in computer communication since the mid 1970s; he has worked on the UK Coloured Book interim standards and participated in the international work on Open Systems Interconnection from its inception, being Rapporteur for FTAM until 1984.

From 1979 he was a member of the UK Department of Industry's Data Communication Protocols Unit. In 1982 he became coordinator of the UNIVERSE project, an experiment with broadcast satellite interconnection of local area networks.

In 1983, Dr. Linington became Head of the Joint Network Team and the Network Executive, responsible for network coordination and operation of the JANET network for the UK Academic Community. He was one of those involved in the establishment of the European networking association RARE, and was its first President from 1986 to 1988.

In 1987 he became the Professor of Computer Communication in the University of Kent at Canterbury. His current research interests cover a range of topics in networks and distributed systems, including distributed multimedia systems exploiting video information. Within ISO, he is currently involved in the standardization of a Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing.

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