Isn’t this just a reinvention of the idea of Open Standards? The fundamental problem is not that no one has formalized the idea, but that the baseline incentiv

Isn’t this just a reinvention of the idea of Open Standards? The fundamental problem is not that no one has formalized the idea, but that the baseline incentives for commercial software do not include optimization for interoperability. For that we need standards bodies or other regulation - RFCs and the like. And, hacker news, we need line engineers to recognize when their produce is suboptimal by these standards, and why.