Management Speak: It’s an industry standard.
Translation: We have no clue why we do it this way.
IS Survivalist Todd Bailey explains the purpose of standards

Complex: adj. (Of a data processing problem) resolvable into two parts: a real part which can be solved or shelved, and an imaginary part which requires a complete and immediate restructuring of the DP department.
– The Devil’s DP Dictionary, Stan Kelly-Bootle (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1981)