Six Standards Nobody Ratified, Measured Against What The Industry Built

Some of the most widely implemented API contracts in the world were never ratified by anybody. The S3 interface, the OpenAI API, CKAN’s Action API and Ethereum’s JSON-RPC became standards by being copied, and “compatible” stayed a marketing word for years because nobody wrote down what it actually commits you to. There is now a Standards section on APIs.io that does two things about that.