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

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Atanu and all,

  But not ALL are avaliable free of charge.  Such is not acceptable,
IMO.

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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