Standardisation on the move

I'm a big fan of technology standards in practice. However, there will always be emerging technologies or those on the fringe of the user space that have yet to be standardised. There will also be some common technologies that, for some reason, have avoided, resisted or overlooked standardisation. So I guess if your career is the production of standards, you'll be set for life as long as you're good at it, because there will always be a need for new standards and new efforts at practising standardisation.

For instance, there are current web software efforts are focused on instant messaging and global login. But there will be other efforts in the future on, say, AJAX libraries and other technology we don't even have yet.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I could only think of one example of current tech that could be standardised.
PPS - Maybe HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray counts as a standards battle.