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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:43:30PM -0400,
 Jeremy Shtern <jeremy.shtern at umontreal.ca> wrote 
 a message of 73 lines which said:

> A colleague asked me a standards question that I thought maybe somebody  
> on the list might have the answer to: is MP3 an open standard or not?

Unlike "free software" where all the definitions yield almost the same
result, there is no consensus on what is an open standard.

See varied (really varied) definitions:

http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/an_emerging_understanding_of_open_standards
(my preferred one)
http://www.perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html
http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
http://www.itst.dk/arkitektur-og-standarder/Standardisering/Aabnestandarder/baggrundsrapporter/Evaluation%20of%20Ten%20Standard%20Setting%20Organizations.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3761

http://www.bortzmeyer.org/formats-ouverts.html (in French only)
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