Also post inflection point, if standardization happens it often becomes a matter of just documenting de facto standards – warts and all. This can make bugs not

Also post inflection point, if standardization happens it often becomes a matter of just documenting de facto standards – warts and all. This can make bugs not just a curiosity of the standard but hard requirements, and a difficult corner to paint yourself out of. Case in point: HTML. (And in particular the WHATWG living standard.) Counter case: HTTP. Through my rose tinted glasses I think it's a beautiful after-the-fact standardization effort. It's not without warts of course, nothing is, but still a great example of carefully turning the state of the world into a solid standard.