Re:KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module
by danShumway on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:48PM
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Implementation is great. It's not the same thing as shipping a feature to end users.
Once you ship a feature to end users and start advertising it, changing it becomes very, very difficult because you risk breaking the web just by evolving the standard. If you're trying to create a joint standard, you can't start by flipping the switch and turning the feature on for regular people and production-facing sites.
That would be like passing a law and enforcing it months before Congress voted on it, simply because, "without real-world trials, how do we know the law will work?"
> A specification from which at least two independent and interoperable implementations from different code bases have been developed, and for which sufficient successful operational experience has been obtained, may be elevated to the "Draft Standard" level.
Standards are created first by someone implementing them and then others coming out with their own implentation and then finally going through a standardization process
Even IEFTF does not accept standards which lack at least two independent implementations