All standards are de facto
Brian Swan posed an interesting question the other night: how many successful standards derive from a standards body? I can't think of any. All the ones that stick seem to be de facto: TCP/IP, driving on the left(\right), VCR cassettes, Microsoft Office Document formats, English grammar. Sure, some are now imposed but they did not start off that way.
Standards are important, but trying to design a technically superior solution from scratch is likely to be a waste of time: observe and formalise existing de facto standards.
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