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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:11:50PM +0530,
 atanu garai <atanugarai.lists at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> It has at least published 43 very important standards related to the
> Internet and information technology (http://tinyurl.com/6ebtuc).

Most of them are not "important". In the list you provide above, you
can find complete failures like MHS or other dead-at-birth
technologies.

Most ISO standards on computer networking were never deployed, partly
for the reason you indicate.

RFC 5218 "What Makes for a Successful Protocol?"
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5218.txt> is a good reading here:

2.1.5.  Open Specification Availability

   Open specification availability means the protocol specification is
   made available to anyone who wishes to use it.  This is true for all
   Internet Drafts and RFCs, and it has contributed to the success of
   protocol specifications developed within or contributed to the IETF.

   The various aspects of this factor include:

   o  World-wide distribution: Is the specification accessible from
      anywhere in the world?

   o  Unrestricted distribution: Are there no legal restrictions on
      getting the specification?

   o  Permanence: Does the specification remain even after the creator
      is gone?

   o  Stability: Is there a stable version of the specification that
      does not change?
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