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

[atanu garai]

Dear all,
thank you for your reflections on this issue. ISO standards  are a
case in point. This will be an issue that can be taken in IGF 2008.
Atanu Garai

On 27/08/2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:
> 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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