On 22/3/24 22:06, John Mann wrote:
While we are at it, can we please have free open access to Australian
Standards?
On 23/3/2024 09:52, Tom Worthington replied:
No. Standards Australia licensed distribution of its standards to a for
profit company. Who personally benefited from that is something which
would merit investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_Australia#Licensing_of_the_sale_of_standards
I suggested standards be made free, but got no support for the idea, so
stopped having anything to do with SA:
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/11/australian-and-international-standards.html
Firstly, a prosaic response:
I actually had to buy an ISO standard the other day.
(ISO 24760-2:2015 - Id Mngt - Reference architecture and requirements)
It wasn't even for income-earning purposes. I'm finally completing an
article on what we got wrong with Id Mngt, and still keep getting wrong,
and I need to be able to quote reliably from it.
The pricing politics and policies are interesting. Prices for a
download of a PDF from ISO, SA and various other national standards
bodies were mostly in the range AUD 300-350. I picked Sweden at 240.
My second response follows, another libel about the Standards game.
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