What can we learn from the example of the wi-fi alliance with regard to the necessity of networking standards?

The Wi-Fi alliance is an alliance that promotes the wireless technologies and the interoperability between them. It defines the the security of the wireless technologies and the application protocols. From this example we can learn that is crucial to have one platform that defines the main characteristic of a type of network in order to have strictly defined standards and protocols, and by doing so, have interoperable networks.