Standards as Intended vs Standards as Used

Part of my role as a software engineer (and formerly a sysadmin) is that I need to read - and understand standards. As Ben Eater said once in his channel "standards trade clarity for specificity". This has many consequences - some of which we know as people implementing the standard incorrectly due to the lack of clarity (I&#x27;ve made this mistake plenty!). But I think this strive for accuracy…