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
They're industrial standards. There's an underlying assumption that you're not going to be able to make use of them without massive amounts of capital equipment, and a further assumption that if you're not able to make use of them, they're probably not very interesting or relevant to you.
Maybe those assumptions are flawed. But they're at least not surprising.
@geoffl @publius @aires @matildalove @soatok You have no need to view the standard. If a product/service complies they can present you a valid certificate.
@emilion @publius @aires @matildalove @soatok
Yeah. lol. I ain't trusting that. Also, several ISO standards are based on known faulty lookup tables that are still used because it would break consistancy to fix them. If you can't independently verify it complies to a standard and where it might deviate from expectations or other standards then it's a pathetic excuse for a standard.
And that certificate still doesn't say exactly what it's complying with.
@geoffl @publius @aires @matildalove @soatok If you have a problem with a standard's requirements, it is best to reach out to a specific working group (WG).
As for prices, shop around. I bought from evs.ee in the past.
https://openregulatory.com/articles/accessing-standards
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