https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/standards/ Recent content in Standards on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/standards-are-not-bureaucracy/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/standards-are-not-bureaucracy/ <p>There is a moment so ordinary that we do not notice it at all.</p> <p>You plug a network cable into a wall socket. The socket comes from a German manufacturer, the cable from Taiwan, the switch beneath it from California, the router behind it from Sweden. And it works. Not because everyone involved is being nice to each other. But because they all adhere to the same set of rules: IEEE 802.3 — Ethernet.</p>