> I also found out today that the HTML Living Standard is very much a living standard - the whatwg/html repo has had 12,318 commits, the most recent of which was less than 24 hours ago.

I understand their mission of capturing the messy real-world usages of web technologies and distilling them into a standard, paving the cowpaths etc etc.

But I don't see how anything can be called a standard that updates daily.