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As I wrote in a previous post, standards are good at certain levels. I've mentioned in several Web Analytics Association (WAA) discussions that the WAA needs to get providers to standardize. I've often heard clients complain and express confusion when moving from one analytics platform to another. Standards within a specific industry allow communities to grow within that industry. For example, you don't use a rip claw hammer to test reflexes, and the suggestion of doing so indicates you're not a member in either carpentry or medical communities. That's an example of the standardization of language creating community; knowing that a rip claw hammer is used in carpentry and a percussion hammer in the medical GP communities. Another problem exists when the standardization is around certain technological artifacts. An excellent example of this is the Microsoft Windows operating system. If it weren't such a standard and if parts A, B and C didn't fit so neatly into parts D, E and F, malicious hackers wouldn't be having so much fun inserting parts G, H and I into it. The standardization of the 'net is another example. Email and related viruses wouldn't proliferate if emails didn't have a standard form.
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