<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Atanu,<br>I appreciate the presentation of the case for universal accessibility required of the ISO standards on IT proccesses. I endorse your comment that the open access domain use of the same fulfils the objectivity of the ISO itself, that is, if it really cares to operate its own mandate.<br>I sure appeal all readers to think aloud on this issue.<br>Sincerely,<br>= <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prof. Keshava Nireshwalia,</span><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="1">M.Sc.,M.Ed.,D.F.P.Tech.,M.I.S.T.E</font><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.,</span><br style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 191);">Consultant, Trainer & Auditor ISO
9001,17025,14000,18000, 22000,etc.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 127, 127);">Financial Investment Adviser </span>Tel: 91-821-2342612; 0091 9449323325</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: atanu garai <atanugarai.lists@gmail.com><br>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 8:11:50 PM<br>Subject: [governance] Why standards from ISO are not freely available?<br><br>
The International Organization for Standardization<br>(<a href="http://www.iso.org/" target="_blank">http://www.iso.org/</a>) is a major standards development and maintenance<br>body for the Internet, besides other organization. It has at least<br>published 43 very important standards related to the Internet and<br>information technology (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/6ebtuc" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/6ebtuc</a>). It is imperative<br>that members of the public have access to those standards so that<br>those standards can be applied by all and everybody concerned. On the<br>other hand, these standards are developed by stakeholders across the<br>globe in a cooperative way, most notably with active participation and<br>contribution from the national standards organizations which are part<br>of the national governments and funded by taxes. According to ISO, the<br>organization has 157 national standards bodies and 60% of its income<br>comes from
membership fees<br>(<a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_in_figures.htm" target="_blank">http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_in_figures.htm</a>). Despite that one<br>may wonder, why these standards are not available openly accessible<br>for all internet users and making these standards available openly<br>accessible can further augment development of standardised public<br>systems.<br><br>Atanu Garai<br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org" href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org">governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</a><br><br>For all list information and functions, see:<br> <a
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