@gsuberland I completely agree...but, somebody's to pay for them. Standards require expertise and stakeholders to devote time, they need drafting and editing and change control. And every couple of years you need everyone back in the room just to check if the standard is still applicable or needs updates. Then it needs to published, so severs and bandwidth security.

It's not a huge burden but some needs to do the work and we need to figure out how to pay them. Save apples to academic publication.

Charities do all of that with and more with no cost to the end user.