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Task Group (TC24). Gary Robinson later claimed to have instigated the effort to convince ECMA to standardize CSMA/CD. ECMA approved a standard in June 1982 that was very close to the DIX de facto standard. Because the DIX proposal was the most technically complete and because of the speedy action taken by ECMA, the IEEE group felt compelled to approve the 802.3 CSMA/CD standard in December 1982. It differed only slightly from the DIX standard in terminology and frame format. IEEE published the 802.3 standard as a draft in 1983 and as a standard

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