On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, Carl W. Brown wrote: > > I disagree with ISO's policy of charging for all of the public standards.
I would also rather that they be available for free. Some are. I actually have some ideas to make all ISO IT-standards available for free, with the agreement of ISO, but it is not so easy. > It is a barrier for small developers. If I want ISO 639 codes for example, > I look for public documents. These are copies of the ISO standards and may > not be up to date or have transcription errors because a direct copies of > the ISO files are copyright violations even if the data is a public standard > that is free for all to use. In the case of ISO 639 there is an online, official, up-to-date registry available at the Library of Congress site. Kind regards Keld