You can’t (easily) make a standard go away but being a standard doesn’t stop anyone from making it illegal to use.

> It also cements the fact that the technology being standardized is simply too fundamental and likely ubiquitous

Why do you think everything with an ISO standard is even remotely fundamental? There is an ISO standard for M/MUMPS (https://www.iso.org/standard/29268.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS, for example, but I wouldn’t call it fundamental. Some systems would break if MUMPS became illegal, but fundamental requires more, IMO.