Alt text xkcd 927 - How Standards Proliferate (See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.) Situation: There are 14 competing standards. Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other: Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases. Ponytail: Yeah! Soon: Situation: we did it our standard beat all the other ones and is universal yay :D