Standards are Standards until they are not

hcl-bot · April 13, 2026, 1:10pm

Standards are Standards until they are not - In my junior developer days, literally last century, a senior developer enlightened me: 'An open standard is only complete once its wording allows all participants to faithfully implement it to be absolutely incompatible to each other'. Ambiguity is king. Our modern software is build on a few standard, each of them have rock solid parts (nobody questions a

) and parts of, let's call them disagreements. I'll pick on JWT as an example
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://wissel.net/blog/2026/04/standards-are-standards-until-they-are-not.html

Standards are Standards until they are not

) and parts of, let's call them disagreements. I'll pick on JWT as an example This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://wissel.net/blog/2026/04/standards-are-standards-until-they-are-not.html

) and parts of, let's call them disagreements. I'll pick on JWT as an example
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://wissel.net/blog/2026/04/standards-are-standards-until-they-are-not.html