If I searched the Internet high and low for a whole day, I doubt I could find a better example of this phenomenon for which I don’t have a name: standards that

If I searched the Internet high and low for a whole day, I doubt I could find a better example of this phenomenon for which I don’t have a name: standards that exist to keep standard authorities busy. Standards that are actually seventeen layers of standards, all developed in isolation from the real ecosystem. Standards that will have between zero and at most three implementations, all mutually incompatible.