If you're a developer who wants to create standards, you might check in with other people who have worked in the area, describe the problem, ask if they have ideas. I try to do that. Unfortunately the people mostly don't respond, but sometimes they do. It's how we avoid having two or more ways of doing exactly the same thing. And the second person is the one who has the power to set a standard, not the first. So it's the power move if your goal is really to try to set a standard.