The diversity of mutually compatible implementations avoids a dominant implementation's critical issue being catastrophic and keeps the standard moving to the d

The diversity of mutually compatible implementations avoids a dominant implementation's critical issue being catastrophic and keeps the standard moving to the direction no single party can totally influence. SQLite does have a list of semi-standardized requirements [1] which should technically allow for alternative implementations---not having them today makes it less viable as a true standard. [1] https://www.sqlite.org/requirements.html https://www.sqlite.org/requirements.html