You mention a target as compliance or certification, but I don't think this is a direct concern for the WSL. They want to support specific use-cases, at least a

You mention a target as compliance or certification, but I don't think this is a direct concern for the WSL. They want to support specific use-cases, at least at first. --- "Moving forward we will be investigating new areas of interest while continuing to support the following scenarios: + GNU command line tools such as grep, sed, and awk + File system and symlink support within the WSL environment + Ability to run apt / apt-get for installs, updates, and package testing + Basic functionality for languages such as NodeJS/npm, Python, Perl + Command line tools such as Vim, Emacs, Git, and SSH" https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-10-anniversary-update/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubun...