Hot take: ISO standards do not meaningfully matter to me, because an extremely impoverished, unbanked person cannot freely access their contents from a smartphone or library computer.

Therefore, I go out of my way to avoid referring to them or relying on them in anyway.

@soatok ISO standards are behind a fuckin paywall?

jesus christ

@matildalove @soatok
ISO: "We created global standards for everyone to follow"
Everyone: "Can we see them?"
ISO: "No"
@aires @soatok they didn't clarify that by "everyone" they meant "wealthy techbros" because to them it's just obvious that those are the people who matter

@matildalove @aires @soatok

It is often hard to get the people that fund the making and updating of standards to also pay for publishing, maintdnance of the organisation that publishes and updates, etc.

I do comparable work, and though we would like to see that these costs are paid in advance by the funding parties, they can't go much further than a little contribution for a minimum of dissemination work.

@Marrekoo @matildalove @aires @soatok I agree. It seems Hard to realize the costs issues. While it would be great to have everything open access, we should consider the cost associated and Who would fund them
@Marrekoo @matildalove @aires @soatok ISO charges exorbitant membership fees. The standards are written by volunteers. They manage to still lose money, somehow, while other standardization organizations can publish their stuff for free and run as a non profit