In my dark-tinted view from actual experience of working on multiple standards and the associated politics, I am inclined to say most standards are like this -

In my dark-tinted view from actual experience of working on multiple standards and the associated politics, I am inclined to say most standards are like this - on multiple occasions 95% of all people discussing what needs to go into a standard didn't even read the conceptual papers associated with them, yet ended up super vocal and forced their view. Maybe I was just unlucky, yet now I know what does it mean "design by committee" from an actual experience.