The big problem with all those standards, frankly, is that you&#x27;ve gotta pay money to actually evaluate them.<p>There aren&#x27;t any guarantees that they&#x27;ll be useful, that they&#x27;ll match the modern development processes in your language, that they&#x27;ll fit your problem domain, etc.<p>Those standards are there primarily to make the publisher a buck--not to represent the codified wisdom of up-to-date practitioners in a field.<p>Until we&#x27;ve got a truly open-source standard for people to code against, we should stop wringing our hands about these things.