In order to make sure everything works together in telecoms there are certifications you have to pass to make sure that when you hook up your equipment to the telephony world you are not going to bring down the entire network. These are necessary, complicated and something you have to have.
We are currently going through this with the software we just released and something came up in testing. I'll put a quote here from the certification test engineer:-
"This is not a problem in real life as most NTs keep the interface activated. Unfortunately in order to meet the requirements of TBR 3 you need to fully implement the state table."
To paraphrase, nobody in the real world does this but because the certification requires it you have to implement all this extra crap to pass a test. Talk about wasted effort, just because some "official" test requires you to do something you have to jump through some hoops. Think about all the things in the world you have to do just because some procedure or requirement says you have to. Some of them are there to keep people safe but others are just downright red tape.
It is amazing though how many people just blindly follow these rules. They don't think why they are there or what they are intended to do. It is the people who question these things that I think get things done. They ask why. A simple thing to do but due to ignorance, laziness or stupidity people don't do it.
So from now on I'm going to ask "why?" more often.
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