Before revision: Occurrences of "Design by committee" in Google Groups USENET archives, 1981–1992 An example of a technical decision said to be a typical result of design by committee is the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell size of 53 bytes.
After revision: An example of a technical decision said to be a typical result of design by committee is the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell size of 53 bytes.