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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:34:39AM -0000,
 John Levine <icggov at johnlevine.com> wrote 
 a message of 32 lines which said:

> ISO standards tend to be for complex things where the cost of copies
> of standards is an insignificant part of the cost of developing
> whatever a standard describes.

That's a strange argument: standards are not read only by implementors
but also by students, by system administrators and even by curious
people.
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