Some of the maintainers might start thinking that a 22-year-old standard like C90 might not quite meet their needs (strange, but it might happen), and might start itching for features from a standard that is onl
and that’s what I contend IETF was doing with the above. Yes, ISO standards are “open” relative e.g. to a Microsoft document format. No, they’re not “open” relative e.g. to IETF’s own standards. The question is, where do we want to place the bar when “open” is use...