All: Please don't bite into the myth that US Federal, Government, and Military Standards are "free." They are provided courtesy of Uncle Sugar, that is US, the taxpayer, (as Pogo once said, We have met the enemy, and he is us.), and as such are not entitled to copyright.
IEC and/EN documents are available in PDF format, either singly, or in subscription form from a variety of sources, but to make them readily available to each other violates untold international copyright agreements. http://webstore.iec.ch/ http://www.iec.ch/webstore/custserv/pdf/adNC-SO.pdf http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp Part of End User License Agreement (EULA) for IEC docs downloaded from ANSI http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/license/ANSI_EULA.pdf? "THE STANDARD(S) AND OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED HEREWITH ARE COPYRIGHTED. BY DOWNLOADING ANY FILE PROVIDED HEREWITH TO YOUR COMPUTER, YOU ARE ACCEPTING AND AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT, PRIOR TO DOWNLOADING OR COPYING TO YOUR COMPUTER ANY FILES(S), YOU MUST DECLINE ACCESS TO SUCH MATERIALS." William T. Sykes Lucent Technologies EH&S Product Safety/Conformance Manager Room 7B-516A 600-700 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 (908)582-6937 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Making Standards Free Is there any consideration being taken on making all IEC and/or EN standards available free of charge, online in a common format such as .pdf? This would be very nice. When new versions come out, you just download it. We live in the electronic communication age where almost anything in print is available on the internet. Why not documents as important as compliance standards? Currently, where does the money one pays for standards go? It can't begin to recoup the cost of those who write the standards. Doesn't it mainly go to copying and distribution? Should not cost much to put it online, so why don't they just do it? Many government documents are available on-line for free. More and more are available each year. I see this as the trend toward the paperless society. So what does the future hold for IEC and/or EN standards? Come on. Lets do it. Brian - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
