By this I'm referring to such things as the IEEE 730 ( https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/730/5284/ ), the IEEE 1028 ( https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1028/1501/ ), and so on and so forth.
I came across these first about a year ago, but I have virtually never heard them spoken about here on Hacker News, and I guess I'm just wondering who is actually writing documents in these kinds of standards and why. Is it just a regulatory thing? Are they secret collections of decades of well-integrated best practices, hiding in plain sight? Maybe something in between those two extremes? I'd love to hear more from people who have done these kinds of things before.
https://iso25000.com/index.php/en/iso-25000-standards/iso-25...
My take? Technology is full of prima donnas who love re-inventing the wheel because they're the smartest people they know.