Frank Erskine wrote:

Peter Parry wrote:

[...] or (as I suspect) someone omitted to
check the draft specifications in detail [...]

Now that I can believe.

Apparently it wasn't noticed for some time.

That too - and by then it was too late...

I thought BT (or was it the PO?) designed the connector in the first
place, and it was later "adopted" by the BSI.

Pass - although ISTR Vero Electronics being involved in the design of
the connector.

--
Andy