Cloud-storage optimizations

This sounds amazing! It would definitely deal with this common issue:

> He has observed that sometimes those vendors are more interested in throwing sand in the gears of the standardization process than they are in adding features—especially if they perceive it might give competitors an advantage.

Stalling to protect revenue is not specific to hardware, here's a very high profile example: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/safari-is-killing-the-web/
https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/01/web-developers-challenge-a...
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/07/new-iphone-browsers/

Standardization is very funny: it's critical for commoditization and competition but it can also being misused for stalling innovation. This complexity makes propaganda and fake news easy.

The perfect balance really seems to be "innovate first, standardize later". This is how GSM, Type-C charging (PD) and... the Internet were born. From https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/ietf.html (for instance)

> Two major differences stand out if one compares the IETF standards track with the process in other standards organizations. First, the final result of most standards bodies is approximately equivalent to the IETF Proposed Standard status. A good idea but with no requirement for actual running code. The second is that rough consensus instead of unanimity can produce proposals with fewer features added to quiet a noisy individual.

> In brief, the IETF operates in a bottom-up task creation mode and believes in "fly before you buy."