No, we can't - since people who aren't on Macs may potentially need to use this standard and that metadata descriptor file has failed to gain any adoption tract

No, we can't - since people who aren't on Macs may potentially need to use this standard and that metadata descriptor file has failed to gain any adoption traction outside of Apple. That said - all sorts of programs that bundle files inject rando metadata files and if there was a codified standard it should be flexible enough to ignore these files (possibly agreeing to never require any files to function that lead with a `.` since most of the random junk that gets thrown into zip files tends to at least consistently follow that habit.