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Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat … What will happen when a company (outside EU for obvious reasons) introduces clearly superior standard? The EU will wait for its bureaucracy to catch up?

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There is no benefit to new standards coming out all the time in this domain. There is major benefit to standardizing for many years at a time.

The same was once believed in south Korea with regards to online commerce and ActiveX. Their law left their infrastructure rigid, less secure, and incompatible with the rest of the world when everyone moved on.

The USB standard and the processes and groups governing it are quite unlike those for ActiveX.

> There is no benefit to new standards coming out all the time in this domain.

actually, there are huge potential benefits for both the users and the company that launches them. faster charging, better ports, smarter cables etc etc etc

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