[systemvoltage]

Yea a bunch of these are reserved. I remember jumping through the whole process when we were designing a usb device.

To counter my own point, it takes money and people to run a standards committee and it is important to keep in mind that funding has to come from somewhere. Here are more details of what it takes to run one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22968431/3908009

IMO they should either be funded by gov or by large companies.

[blibble]

yes, $4k/year doesn't seem that bad for a company that's going to be producing a commercial product

(and of course if you're just hacking locally you can do whatever you want as it's an open standard)