When a file format become a Standard
Anybody can define a new format -- but not all formats become Standards
A need for it
A description of the structure of the files
Some tools to produce it
Some code to read/use it (library, plugin etc)
Some users and developers to adopt it
Some standards organization(s) to recognise it
ISO (International Standards Organization), IEEE (Intistitute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers), IETF (Interneet Engineering Task Force), W3C (Web
Consortium), ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association, now Ecma International.