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

[Carlos Afonso]

Not so. Summarized docs yes, detailed ones need to be purchased.

I think there should be a general policy by every UN agency to make the 
product of their work open and freely available.

--c.a.

atanu garai wrote:
> The difference being that ITU standards - so called ITU-T recs - are
> mostly available free of charge
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/publications/recs.html and reasonably so
> because these are proceeds of collective intellectual works. No where
> there is another example like ISO supposedly an international
> organisation producing instruments that are being applied to virtually
> every sphere of public systems, yet the very information remains
> closed.
> 
> Atanu Garai
> 
> 2008/8/8 Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br>:
>> 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.
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