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

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

Atanu and all,

  With the approval of ooXML as a ISO standard, vs XML
my once remaining confidance in ISO as a actual standards
body, has vanished entirely.

atanu garai wrote:

> 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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