interoperability

A standard is a negotiated settlement

13 May 2025 · standardspolicyinteroperability

Engineers read standards as technical documents. They're the written record of what a room full of competitors could agree to, which explains most of their stranger features and tells you exactly where to apply pressure.

Interoperability is the feature

05 October 2023 · interoperabilitystandardspolicyopen-source

Every platform eventually works out that the boundary it controls is worth more than the product inside it. Which is the very reason the boundary should be the thing you specify.