Creating standards is a fundamental part of what governments do, and have done forever. We take for granted things like common definitions for weights and meas

Creating standards is a fundamental part of what governments do, and have done forever. We take for granted things like common definitions for weights and measures, imagine if “the market” could just decide it didn’t want to use the metric system anymore and invented whatever system it felt like to weigh things. Innovation has its place, but some things just need to be reliable and well understood so we can move on in our lives and focus on building on top of what’s already established.