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Neil Trevett's avatar

Interesting history of some key standards. One way to avoid the Paradox is for standards to build extensibility into their core definition . For example, Khronos standards in the field of 3D Graphics (such as glTF) enable implementers to innovate at their own rate "without permission" through vendor extensions. Well behaved apps using the standard simply skip over any functionality they don't understand. Active standards organizations can help shepherd widely adopted extensions into the cross-vendor standard to avoid innovation stagnation.

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Marc Canter's avatar

Very nicely put sir

Dave Winer would be proud of you

I myself have spent (literally) decades promoting open standards

Let's hope that the upcoming meta-metaverse embraces open:

- data

- streaming

- messaging

and sits on top of ID platforms - that serve as Hubs

all interconnected by a decentralized, distributed meta-marketplace of marketplaces. Which all sits in networks of networks.

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