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NFUN posted...

But it's not getting frozen at the 2022 status quo. A regulatory update every 4-5 years is exactly the period I'd imagine for this kind of thing. If there was something new every year or two then yeah the bureaucracy is gonna be problematic but this case seems perfectly fine

This means it will lag 4-5 years, which I suppose would be quite a lot better than most regulatory updates. But also why would the government update it as fast as every 4-5 years? Is there a revision frequency built into the law? That would be nice, but that's not how regulations work. Instead you need to hire a bunch of lobbyists to convince the agency to do it, and the rate at which that is done is based on how expensive it is to re-open that can of legal worms. Technological advancement has nothing to do with the frequency.

Also, there are definitely new standards coming out every year from lots of manufacturers. It's just that USB's big evolution is every 5ish years. All the smaller projects would have no chance to succeed, it would just be USB remaining.

Of course, the innovation and competition will still happen fine outside of Europe, especially in the US and China, so this doesn't really change much. Europe will just siphon the new tech from the rest of the world with a 4-5 year lag (optimistically). Europeans are quite alright with that strategy from what I can tell.