I love implementing stuff like standardizations. Seriously, I love reading documentation that has lists of codes meant to concisely summarize specific frequentl

I love implementing stuff like standardizations. Seriously, I love reading documentation that has lists of codes meant to concisely summarize specific frequently occurring events. I am the biggest nerd when it comes to pouring through documentation that was designed specifically with the intent to unify a common need that started off fractured. In general though, it's just hard to know exactly when and where to implement what standardization. It's not just HTTP. The entire world of programming and computer science would be much more elegant with intelligent standardization, but it's literally a hard problem. The source of information is the hard problem. It is subject to change. How can you standardize something that is consistently evolving, evolving to the point that it is expected that the functionality of the system is going to exceed all known expectations of it's operation and behavior? As developers, we are consistently striving to exceed our own boundaries, to do things better, more optimally, more safely, more legibly, more precisely, more correctly. Our expectations of ourselves is what screws us when we think about 'the big picture', because we apply the same model of reasoning to 'the big picture'. Yes, we do not know what we do not know. However, we additionally do not know how to determine the difference between 'that which exists that we do not know' and 'that which does not exist that we do not know'. That is the core problem that lays underneath the lack of implementing standards, and it the reason people standardize things in the first place. Standardization prevents us from re-inventing the wheel. Standardization makes things safe. Standardization makes complex systems predictable even when information about adjacent systems are unknown. Standardization is a vehicle for implementing trust. People get confused because there are too many words for the same thing - too many ways to describe the same things, too many languages to do the same thing, too many explanations meant to teach the same thing. Either we have to learn the hard way (by observing massive failure, or by experiencing it), or we have to hope we are implementing things the most correct way, and trust we will get there.