Richard,
Surely SBS is a BSI member? In that case, you get the documents at
half price. And your library service ought to have the documents,
anyway.
This argument about selling international standards runs and runs.
ETSI (well funded by the Telcos) has put all their specs on the web,
FOC (but you have to register). For CEN and ISO, the national
standards bodies rely on the income from sales of documents and
other services to pay their overheads. Worldwide, government money
has been withdrawn from standards work, and industry has not
replaced it. Hence we get companies like yours desperately needing
the standards, but not funding their development, and wanting free
copies. A good example at the moment is ISO 14443 (Contactless
Proximity cards), where the whole AFC (automatic fare collection)
industry desperately needs the standard, but the ISO Working Group
has no money. Some of us put our own money into at least reviewing
the drafts of the standards (and I recently got a bit from the DETR),
but here in the UK there is no money from the DTI, and hardly
anything from industry. Freelance consultants in this field are
suffering from everyone wanting their expertise and knowledge, but
few willing to pay for it. Economists call this "failure of the market".
Regards,
Peter Tomlinson
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From: "Powell, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MUSCLE CardOS information.
Date sent: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:57:56 +0100
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> I think that there is some confusion here between the ISO specs and the
> CardOS documentation that you originaly asked about. I was looking for the
> same information, and I was told that the document is not on general release
> as the 44C80 is a security device and the document has a lot of security
> infomation in it. You will have to sign your soul to Siemens to get a copy
> of this. However, I would have thought that without knowing what the
> application is doing you're not going to get much from the card !!!
>
> The CardOS web site has some information which may be useful and there are
> contact addresses.
>
> http://www.siemens.com/sbs/en/offerings/services/SmartCard/Products/cardos_m
> 4.html
>
> On the subject of ISO standards, I was quoted £300 for 7816-1 to 5 from my
> local ISO outlet. This works out to about £1 a page. I thought the idea of
> standards was that everybody has (free) access to them, so that everybody
> can develop to the same specifications. A small cost to cover printing and
> shipping would be acceptable, but I think the current price is a rip off for
> would-be developers. Am I alone on this ?
>
> Richard
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