Hi Brian -
Thanks for the shout out ... I "blogged" the whole thing at the
time if anybody is interested:
http://museum.media.org/eti
Regards,
Carl
> I think we should give credit to Carl Malamud and Tony Rutkowski,
> whe spent many months in Geneva at least ten years ago, sowing the
> seeds for this move by the ITU.
>
> Brian
>
> On 2006-12-25 18:41, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > Since my Narten number has been rather low of late, and since
> > this should be of wide interest and is directly relevant to the IETF's
> > functions, and
> > since I had not heard of it previously, I thought I would distribute this.
> >
> > I also thought that people would like the reasoning behind this decision.
> >
> > Regards (& Happy Holidays to all)
> > Marshall Eubanks
> >
> >
> > http://www.dailypayload.com/2006/1221.html
> > ITU to Distribute Standards Free of Charge
> > December 21, 2006
> >
> > Many people in the telecommunication industry have pressed for the ITU
> > to make its standards documents available free of charge. Well, the long
> > wait is over. Starting January 2, 2007 the ITU will make its standards
> > documents available to the public free of charge.
> >
> > The same kind of change in policy took place at ETSI several years ago.
> > Reportedly, making its standards available for free did not have a
> > negative impact on ETSI's bottom line. Rather, the free standards helped
> > to drive participation in the standards-making body, thus compensating
> > for any loss in revenue.This move came after a very long trial wherein
> > the ITU allowed a person to register an e-mail address and download
> > three documents free. This trial demonstrated conclusively that there
> > was a strong desire to receive standards at no cost.
> >
> > Since the ITU publishes some documents jointly with ISO, special
> > consideration will be given to those "common" texts, since ISO still
> > charges for its standards and is apparently heavily dependent on the
> > revenue from the sales of its standards. For such "common" texts for
> > which ISO charges a fee, the ITU will not release documents free of
> > charge until they are at least one year old.
> >
> > Documents will be made available in PDF format, downloadable directly
> > from the ITU web site.
> >
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