No argument from me on that. However, it is fact that despite what
"never has been" the popular terminology "RJ.." was applied almost
universally back 10 years or so. It will take a bit longer yet for the
common usage to disappear.
Yup.
I used to have one of those USOC books, I got it back when I was wrestling
with GTE in Hawaii.
We ordered RJ-31X jacks for alarm use, and I'd swear that they never wired
one twice the same way, and never wired one right..
We used to just take whatever they did, fix it back to USOC, and move on,
until they threatened to sue us over it. Then we took them to the PUC, and
explained our case. Many many wasted hours and trips to re-do their work,
and no point asking them to fix it, they would either do nothing, or make it
a different broken thing.... The PUC decided that we would "hands off" their
gear, but they would be required to do it right from then on.. The next
install saw SIX supervisors, who took most of a day to install the jack,
pulled power from one operating computer to plug in their drill (to the
extreme displeasure of the engineer using the machine) and damn near
drilling through the power cord (220 or 440V) for the company's mainframe...
After that, things got more serene, and they were wired right most of the
time.
Handy little book though, for resolving such disputes.
Is it like this? No? Then FIX IT!.