[governance] Why standards from ISO are not freely available?

[Carlos Afonso]

The same should apply to ITU and all other multilateral agencies with 
regulatory powers, funded as they are by taxpayers of all member countries.

--c.a.

atanu garai wrote:
> The International Organization for Standardization
> (http://www.iso.org/) is a major standards development and maintenance
> body for the Internet, besides other organization. It has at least
> published 43 very important standards related to the Internet and
> information technology (http://tinyurl.com/6ebtuc). It is imperative
> that members of the public have access to those standards so that
> those standards can be applied by all and everybody concerned. On the
> other hand, these standards are developed by stakeholders across the
> globe in a cooperative way, most notably with active participation and
> contribution from the national standards organizations which are part
> of the national governments and funded by taxes. According to ISO, the
> organization has 157 national standards bodies and 60% of its income
> comes from membership fees
> (http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_in_figures.htm). Despite that one
> may wonder, why these standards are not available openly accessible
> for all internet users and making these standards available openly
> accessible can further augment development of standardised public
> systems.
> 
> Atanu Garai
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