"Systems drift where learning is disconnected from authority.
A standard is a commitment you make to your future self. In a reliability improvement that shifts risk elsewhere, it exists so you do not have to reinvent judgment every time the room is loud.
In a reliability improvement that shifts risk elsewhere, people comply with what is enforced, not what is written. If exceptions are informal, you end up with a standard no one can defend and a process no one trusts. Make the boundary explicit enough that a peer could disagree with it; if no one can disagree, no one can defend it under pressure.
James G. March is useful here because it forces precision. State the non-goal and the boundary that keeps scope from turning into a rewrite. Make it falsifiable.