All,
Rather it appears that the converse is true to daves conclusion here.
It is up to those that wish to charge a fee for of documentation
regarding standards, to show a compelling reason to do so....
This also seems to be the IETF "Rough Consensus" from the tenor
of comments on this subject...
Dave Crocker wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 4/6/99 -0400, Scott Bradner wrote:
> >There seem to be mixed views of the level of fee that, for example, the ITU
> >changes on its web page for access to individual documents. I've generally
> >heard that this level of fees is not seen as a practical problem (though
> >a strong idelogical one) - do other people on this list have an opinion
> >about this issue?
>
> Folks,
>
> The fact that ITU docs can now be purchased directly during an online
> session is quite helpful. Still I, too, run into folks who find the amount
> of the fees painful.
>
> In any event, the reasons for the fees or their amounts do not have to be
> relevant to this discussion, since the IETF has always felt that 'open
> access' mean 'free' and 'online'. It is the IETF writing this draft.
>
> ICANN is an effort that still has some hope of maintaining its IETF
> derivation, so perhaps making the suggested language change is a reasonable
> stake in the ground. It is entirely objective and consonant with our
> established philosophy.
>
> If the policy is unacceptable, the burden of demonstrating this falls to
> others, rather than expecting us to anticipate their needs and limits.
>
> d/
>
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