Given that the tech industry is so concentrated, it's going to be *very* hard for us to define standard interop interfaces that don't end up advantaging the tech companies. Standards bodies are *extremely* easy for big industry players to capture:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/30/weak-institutions/
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