Usually standards will have holes. Therefore, it is necessary to ask: what happens when a competing standard notices a hole in the current standard? In this cas

Usually standards will have holes. Therefore, it is necessary to ask: what happens when a competing standard notices a hole in the current standard? In this case, it is better to have a reference implementation, matching which, the competing implementation should have programs that depend on the standard to continue to work. Therefore, tying a standard to a reference implementation, especially one as reputed as SQLite, might not have been a bad outcome overall.