One of the most important reasons that standards are so important is interoperability and compatibility. If you have a product from Company A and one from Company B, they should be able to talk to each other. If they are not compatible with each other, then there will be a problem. The solution is to create standards that ensure that products from different manufacturers can work together.
Standards also help avoid incompatibility problems. Let’s say that two different companies make printers but both use different standards. The result is that you won’t be able to print from your device to either of those printers unless one or both companies change their standards or come up with a way for their printers to communicate regardless of what standard they use.
If there were no standards for network protocols, then we would see a lot of confusion about which protocol was used by which company and we would see less interoperability between products from different manufacturers because it would be harder for them to communicate seamlessly together.
Another reason why standards are so important is because they provide consistency across multiple devices and networks. When everything works according to the same protocol, then you can expect similar results regardless of which network or device you use. This allows for consistency in handling information and makes it easier to troubleshoot problems when they occur.
