The basic answer to obtaining copies of ISO standards is that you have to
purchase each copy from your country's national standards body (e.g. BSi in
UK, ANSI in USA) or from their agents. If your organisation is a member of
your national standards body, you should get a discount - and some large
organisations have a bulk purchase agreement under which they can make
copies for their own employees.
ISO standards are copyright documents, with the copyright owned by ISO in
Switzerland. Since ISO and the national standards bodies get a lot of their
income from selling copies of the standards, they are not prepared to allow
their standards to appear on the internet for free download (and they
haven't got themselves organised yet, as far as I know, to sell them over
the internet for download). Therefore any copies of ISO standards found on
the internet are in breach of copyright - and some of those copies that I
have seen are not the latest editions; others have been re-typed rather than
copied in facsimile form, and thus may well have errors..
There is a debate about this topic going on within the standards
organisations, because it is obvious that compliance with ISO standards is
being hindered by having to purchase them. 20 years ago any reputable
engineering company (and that includes software engineers) paid its annual
fees and became a member of their national standards body. Not so now,
particularly for newer companies. It is also obvious that newer standards
groups (e.g. ETSI) have abandoned the ISO model, and that makes life a lot
easier for designers - we can freely download the ETSI documents from their
web site.
There is for some people another route to get hold of ISO standards, which
is to take part in their development...
Regards,
Peter Tomlinson
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From: "Anna Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:46 AM
Subject: [OCF] RID
> Hi All,
>
> Do the company which is planing to develop smart card applications need to
> obtain it's own Registered Application Provider Identifier (RID)?
>
> Our company is a start-up company and we do not have the Issuer
> Identification Number (IIN), issued according to ISO/IEC 7812, that can be
> used instead of the RID as well.
>
> How can we obtain a copy of ISO/IEC 7816-5?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Anna Kern
>
>
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