> To be fair, the WHATWG HTML "Standard" is also nothing more than a Wiki, or even just a collaborative space where everything can change at any time.
well unless you're waiting for the second coming for someone official to come along and bless an RFC, all standards are born of a collaborative space where everything can change at any time. Versions are just snapshots, and good luck if you want to stick with one forever (hows that TLS 1.0 server going to work out after March 2020?).
