I'm confused. much of your story is correct, but you replace the primary actors (the ITU and ISO) with 'corporate'. This is true is inasmuch as the ITU represented telephony culture, but isn't really representative of corporatism as a whole.

there is _another_ 'protocol war', but it was certainly a cold one. Internet companies starting in the late 90's just decided they weren't going to care any more about standardization efforts. They could take existing protocols and warp their intent. they could abandon the goal of universal reachability in order to make a product more consumable by the general public and add 'features'. basically whatever would stick. the poster child for this division was the development of IPv6 and the multicast protocols. The IETF just assumed that like the last 20 years, they would hash out the solutions and the network would deploy them. Except the rules had changed out from under them, the internet wasn't being run by government and academic agencies anymore, and the new crew just couldn't be bothered.

two wars. the IETF won the first through rough consensus and running code, but lost the second for nearly the same reason.