Well, as programmers, we all follow programming standards (both in the W3 standards, and in the C ++ standard, etc.), and many of us believe that these standards are “sacred”, as well as many experienced programmers can memorize by heart choose your choice of standards when asked about a question in their area of expertise. You can see this last case a lot here on SO, by the way!
However, I think that most programmers do not know that these standards are defined by people's committees, and that our standards are actually living standards that are constantly changing to meet current needs based on feedback (HTML5.0, Perl6.0, C ++ 0x) etc.
Now my personal modus-operandi has recently read upcoming standards that will affect me, and if I have problems that I am not talking about, I send a consortium explaining my problems and suggestions. Many times I get positive reviews, sometimes I explain well why this is impossible, and, of course, sometimes I just ignore :) However, I know that I tried and made an attempt to make the standard better.
So, I was wondering if I am some kind of standard freak, or if this behavior is common among other SO users?
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