[kenjackson]

Of course it matters. The "standard" becomes driven by the peculiarities of a specific implementation, rather than the best thing for the base of customers that are served by the standard.

I think it's fine to have a reference implementation, but we need a broad set of implementations (with actual users) so that the standard doesn't get blinders on it due to an implementation decision made on a de-facto standard.

[etherealG]

i see what you mean yes, that does make sense. to keep it honest so to speak.