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What? Does Google obey to all network standards and protocols? 
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I would appreciate more substantiated comments than that.
What they don't follow?
Let me provide more straight answer to your question:
Yes, Google fully obeys robots.txt file.
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Have you ever noticed that my profession is SEO?
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It doesn't matter what your profession is. Great sites don't rely on search engine traffic.
If you do, you have to play by their rules.
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No need to rephrase: Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) standardization is based on/extends the robots.txt specifications
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What point do you try to defend exactly? That rel="nofollow" is undocumented by W3C recommendations?
W3C does not provide standardization, but Google doesn't brake their rules either.
Internet standards are regulated by ISOC, IAG, IETF (IESG), IRTF (IRSG)... in that order.
Besides, there is very little awareness about differences in proprietary, open and industry accepted standards.
If company X says "We will provide some extra functionality by introducing Y feature", it doesn't brake any existing standard.
It is up to it's users whether they will use it or not.
Will it become a new widely accepted standard is not important at all.